Religion isn't needed for that, and too often, misdirects.The religious people I encounter on these threads are not happier than the irreligious. So what is the importance of something can be successfully disregarded?
Of course, one doesn't really need to understand the science to conclude that others must because it works, that it is a valid method of inquiry and its fruits useful, and to benefit from it. No doubt, the people thinking COVID is a hoax and/or won't wear a mask or social dstance, understand no science. But plenty of people who do understand just as little, but they do know who to trust and who to reject.
Yes it has. Are you enjoying using the Internet? Did you get polio? Does your house light up at night with the flick of a switch? Do pumps deliver water to your faucet or do you need to drop a bucket in the well and carry it indoors? Do you like driving rather than walking or taking a wagon or carriage? Somehow, you missed all of that.
Science can preserve and prolong life (think antibiotics), preserve or restore function (think eyeglasses), make life healthier, increase the food supply, preserve or restore comfort (think air conditioning), reduce tedium (think electric saws), bring people together (think telephones and airplanes), and make life more interesting (think television).
Science's latest triumph is forensic science, which is not only bringing more people to justice sooner while exonerating the innocent.
So you are benefiting from science. From sound to microphone to electric signals to a recording medium and back again (substitute speaker for microphone), and voila - music without a band or musical instrument. Does that not make your life better?
Science's purpose in not to make your life happier, more satisfying, or more rewarding, although avoiding small pox, for example goes a long way toward facilitating those goals. Science gives you the tools to do that yourself. Science allows us to anticipate outcomes. The rest is up to you.
That's not a defect of science.
Big bang theory, evolutionary theory, and plate tectonics contradict Genesis, for example
Because that's wrong. People have forgotten how to use slide rules thanks to hand-held calculators, but no loss there. People well educated in the arts and sciences haven't forgotten how to use their brains, and those that have learned nothing rigorous never knew how in the first place to be able to forget. My wife was just complaining over the telephone that because of spell-check, she's forgotten how to spell. So what if she has spell-check. We just repurpose our grey matter to what it is needed for.
That's a nicety, but I disagree. Science has no need of religion, and religion doesn't benefit from science
Not to me. Religion offers no comfort.
I see the comfort of religion to be similar to the comfort of a hit from a cigarette in a smoker withdrawing since his last cigarette. Like the cigarette, religion creates and satisfies a need of its own making. If you are raised without either, neither gives you comfort. Or in my case, I quit both over thirty years ago, and now have no need for either, nor am I comforted by either.
Nope. I have no trouble distinguishing between the two. Surprised that you can't.
You're projecting. The irreligious don't loathe you. But you loathe us. Already, in other threads, you've called us all arrogant and liars. If religions would butt out of our lives, we'd never give them another thought.
