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- I have always thought of religion and science as two sides of the same coin.
I think this is a reflection of their shared phylogenetic history. Religion, science, and philosophy probably emerged from the same ancient thought tradition.
- However, it seems to me that as long as there are questions that have yet to be solved by science, humanity will find a use for religion.
I'm with you on this, but only if we use the word religion in the very limited sense of describing "something supernatural". I could see people in still saying "well I think God is like an energy that fills the Universe" or say "well God is just the laws of physics", etc. But a purposeful, anthropomorphized, creator God is on the way out.
- As soon as the entire universe has unfolded before our eyes, and once science has solved everything, religion disappears. But so does the need for science. I don't believe we will ever come to this point because surely the Universe extends beyond what we currently perceive as possible, and its complexities may develop infinity.
Yes, agreed. I think problems and mysteries are an inherent function of living in a Universe governed by entropy. The universe is knowable, but we will never "know all the things".
- I always considered the greatest irony to be if there is a god, that they are a scientist who simply discovered a way to program or create a universe.
Some physicists consider this a likely scenario.