Philosophy, Science, and Religion: Three Ways of Learning About the World

I reject your notion about religion because it is not the goal of most of the major religions to fully explain the physical universe.
Using specifically Christianity as an example here, there is the attempt to explain creation, but beyond that the characteristics of the physical world are not very important. The main goal of religion is to explain our spiritual side, the goal of science is to explain our physical world, and the goal of philosophy is to use objective reasoning and logic to explain concepts (morality, sexuality, “the greater purpose”, etc.) It may be appropriate to view philosophy as the marriage of science and religion.

You're ignoring the fact that Christianity makes extraordinary claims about the nature of reality. Maybe they don't dwell in the minutia, but this matters little.

Remember, they're claiming, quite arrogantly I'd argue, to know precise WAY in which the entire universe came into existence (God willed it). Additionally, they claim to know the precise REASON for it happening (so that man can return to loving God).

These are, by any measure, major claims about the nature of reality, and as a result they infringe directly on the realms of science and philosophy. But again, their grounds for making the claims are different. They ask us to simply believe a narrative handed down to them, and I reject that.

That's all minutia.

All we're expected to believe as Christians is that the entire universe was made for just us, for the purpose of being the stage on which we return to loving God the way he wants to be loved.

All the planets, starts, space, time, plants, animals, nature, etc.–all that is pretty much decoration for a later life which will be much better than this one. That's why this stuff isn't attempted to be explained by the Bible.

It's not because they're giving way for science to explain this stuff, it's because they think it's unimportant given the fact that heaven is the thing that really matters anyway. This notion, by the way, of our current life being less important than the next is one of the things I abhor most about religion.

I must agree with you. I cannot accept things on faith alone. There has to be a reason, one that wasn't written down to subjugate the people at least, that we are thinking creatures and not autonomous drones. This is also something that I'm currently dealing with in my AI research. I'm currently stuck on, “If the machine becomes self aware, do I have the right to turn it off” syndrome, because it's getting closer than most people think.

Do you have feelings? Can I see them? Or a consciousness?
Either way it is a red herring from my point, which is that Daniel is comparing apples and oranges. Science and religion/philosophy attempt to explain different areas of our existence.

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