Reply #31: We know enough about the world to know... [View All]

...it precludes any sort of meaningful divine intervention. What religious supporters do is one of two things. First, they try to discredit the science or keep people from knowing about, often by mischaracterizing it. Did all this happen by random chance? No, of course not. Natural selection is not random chance at all. Yet the "debate" is always phrased in terms of random chance vs. god, as if god was a viable alternative.

The second way is by asserting that science has nothing to do with relious matters. A brief review of history reveals that this is plainly untrue. What has happened in the West is that as science grows, religion retreats from its role of explaining everything, to explaining essentially nothing. We are at a point now where is we ask just what a proper religious matter is, the honest answer must be nothing of any importance. Creation? Nope, science has occupied that field. Morality? While this is by no means a solved problem, science is making inroads while the lessons of religion are a ripp-off of basic human feelings at best or a monsterous perversion of them at worst. The nature of life? Nope, science has occupied that field. The purpose of life? We know the answer to that even if we dob't want to admit it. Life has no objective purpose, it just happens. Note that being unsatisfied with this statement does not prove it false.