No God

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Originally Posted by cernan
I reckon that Ockham's razor has religion beat now, and "experimentation vs faith" will finish it off in the long run. Esp. now that neuroscience research groups are showing that you can expose people to electromagnetic fields and induce religious experience, angelic visions, conversations with the almighty etc. It would be a pretty sick joke if our global religions are the result of a sunstorm a couple of thousand years ago.
I agree with everything this man says !

But . . .

I can't see superstition, the desire for the mysterious, to ever be finished off, I think it is innate in us, as basic to our make-up as anger, murder, love, awe, racism or empathy.

I can't seeing science having an impact on religion any more than it having an impact on fear, racism, misanthropy, astrology and empathy. They will always be with us, they are what make us up.

the idealist in me disagrees and thinks science can unify the species under common goal of advancing itself.

the realist in me agrees completely that science cannot achieve this. This revelation makes me want to switch field to neuroscience so that start butchering brains and retrofitting chromosomes to eradicate the less desirable elements of human nature and start developing the left wing totalitarian scientific utopia the idealist in me wants.

And to be fair my opening words following the cartoonish representation of christianity was a definition of atheism.