Religion Definition and 46 Threads

Hi. Well, I'm a civilian physicist. I have no PHD or Bachelors degree in anything. I've been studying religion & physics through YouTube videos, ancient texts, documents, podcasts, and books. I've found a very strong correlation between the two. In fact, in my opinion, they're the same; only...

This thread is about whether strictly and always applying the forum rules allow for the whole picture of exact science. For every one of the rules there is a good scientific reason, the question is not about the quality of the rules but rather about the 'fruits' of applying them strictly. I...

I currently have education in religion, and at 46 years old, I have the desire to go back to school and study astronomy/physics etc.. i would be starting all over and would take til I am 55 if i go post doctorate. My interest in astronomy started when i was 12. if i had attended a better school...

I am involved in a discussion about the origin of religion. I made the statement that the very early humans who were speculating about the causes of things that frightened them and that they did not understand (wind, thunder, earthquakes) were engaged in philosophy and science. Their exercise...

Does anyone know What the life permitting ranges for the constants usually mentioned in the Fine Tuning argument are? i.e. h, G, e, rate of expansion, amount of dark matter ect... My thinking is that if they are just kind of randomly placed inside their respective ranges then that would indicate...

Hello fellow PF'ers! I have been conversating with a strongly religious character for some time now, and thought i'd present some of his arguments to you. I have myself tried to explain the basics of the problems, but maybe some of you can have a laugh and go into further details as to why he...

This is not a religious diatribe, I am an agnostic leaning heavily towards atheism. But, dark matter and dark energy are just equations used to close a gaping hole in our understanding. Singularities are not understood. Expansion is not understood. But more importantly, theoretical physics...

Is it viable to use the law of religion under a secular court? Catholic priests aren't allowed to marry (which is under their religious law), and thus removing his right to marry, for example. So, if the priest were to file a case stating that he was not allowed to marry, is it sensible? Of...

Do you think Newton's piety was important to developing or fueling his philosophical and psychological impulses to be a great scientist and mathematician ? Did his religious and alchemical goals orient his scientific researches; his outstanding mechanical, mathematical, and optical theories...

Hello everyone. This is my first post on these forums. I came here for guidance, as I am currently very confused with the nature of reality, and how I should be thinking. I can't imagine that anyone here will have an absolute answer, but I am hoping to be grounded a little. The biggest problem...

looking on the current status of physics , i think physics * pure theoretical physics* is dying and instead engineering is taking its place i think that every thing that needs to be discovered has already been discovered when i look to the current fields , particle physics for instance almost...

Two things you can't compute: Unconciousness, and eternity - both which death is about. We live in a daily life where conciousness and time is both a part of our daily life, and the conciousness combined with the time can make us think about past, present and future. The brain has replaced the...

I argue with a ton of people that I know, and most of them ask me why I believe in evolution. I always ask them to look at the evidence some day and to stop being arrogant, but they deny the fact, because it gets in the way of God. What can I say to them? I get the usual response, Adolf...

Hi, I initiated a discussion that got over heated before this simple question was answred so perhaps someone would like to comment on it. This began as a simple question regarding evolution and for me has become the focal point of a series of papers for a writing class. The discussion was...

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" Hi, there I just wanted to know what Einstein actually meant with this quote "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." Did he mean it in the sense that religion is an attempt to explain why...

Rule 1) Absolutely no religious references, only spiritual and philosophical Rule 2) God may be discussed in this thread Rule 3) God is not a person, physical being, or anything with any type of anthropomorphic traits for the purpose of this discussion (i.e. does not talk and certainly does...

Can someone clarify whether this is right and add any other important/useful information about this subject please: Marx believed that religion exists because people cannot understand society and people therefore turn to religion because they are suffering either physically or intellectually...

is it possible to be interested in cosmology and a unified theory and not be an athiest?

I know there will probably be lots of disagreements with what I am about to say concerning the First amendment of the Bill of Rights, but I will just go ahead in say it: I don't think the founding fathers of the United states wanted the individual to decided whether s(he) wants to choose or...

Reading threads on this forum (especially under cosmology and Debunk), I see that many people make the accusation or statement that a person has distanced himself from science and logic and towards belief or religion. So I ask you - Do you think that science is a religion? I'd say it...

I find this appalling. How is it that people don't understand the benefits of vacinations and how miniscule the percent of serious adverse reactions are. http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071018/NEWS07/710180330/-1/NEWS07

I am writing an essay for a course regarding the history and philosophy of science. The topic is: "During the 17th century, there was intense interaction between science and religion. Using examples, mount an argument that takes a position on this interaction. In other words, with reference...

Something that is often said in one breath is: "Thats not science! ... Its religion (or pseudo-science)" Is it true that any method which tries to investigate reality but which isn't science, is religion or pseudoscience? Or are there other categories?

I accept theorems on faith, without proof. Sorry, just found the analogy funny. My point is: I really do not like math textbooks (I refer to the calculus/DE level textbooks I have, and my memory from high school of finding math textbooks nearly unreadable). They seem to employ the least...

in the bible, and quran it mentions Earth and heavens and everything was created in 6 days right? in the quran it mentioned that 1 day for god is equivilant to 1000 Earth years. now if 6 days mentioned, means 6 days of God's, that means 6000 Earth years it took to created the universe...

Interesting polling report from Pew Research Center on people's impression of mixing politics and religion: http://pewforum.org/publications/surveys/religion-politics-06.pdf Some of the results are surprising. 69% feel liberals have gone too far in keeping religion out of school and...

The issue of man is an extremely important one. Today's civilizaion has based its religion upon humanism; that is, the originality and worship of man. It is assumed that various religions in the past shattered man's personality, and forced him to sacrifice himself for his gods, admit his...

I don t understand people who feels that the only way to get some type moral guildances, control and spiritual attainment is through religion. The kind of religion that are more or less entail the worshipping of some god or deities. I am disgusted by people who feels the need to reduce the...

There appears to be a human need for some type of a set of religious beliefs. These beliefs are truths that are generally expected to be accepted without question. Religion typically has dealt with two basic issues: defining accepted behaviors and defining the relationship of individuals to...

Is the unification of religion possible, and if so, what tenets might make it so?

Is http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=science&x=17&y=10 , we see that worship of God is worship of an ultimate truth based in fact. It is easy to accept that religion worships an ultimate truth. but it does not seem clear that science...

There is a human tendency to regard things as holy which is separate from religion or spirituality, though often associated. People have a tendency to in general value some objects or circumstances as special. Superstition involves holy objects + rationalization with a set of beliefs for their...

I have thought and thought about this over and over, and time and again, I come to the conclusion that there cannot be any 'absolute truths', about anything, as after all, each persons reality is different. Just as time is relevant to the observer etc. I believe so too is reality and therefore...

Ok. I have a upcoming debate about science and religion, and we were given a task to show our views on this subject given some quotes. Me, daringly ( :-p ) chose einsteins quote, which is: 'Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind' However, when i tried...

This is a subject i'd like to become a lot more educated on. I've seen a lot of science vs religion discussions on various other forums, and a lot of religious fanatics making statements about the flaws in accepted scientific theory... a lot of which I'm skeptical about, but unfortunately I'm...

For any of the Bad Religion fans here, Dr. Graffin now has his PhD dissertation from Cornell available. It is in paperback book form titled "Evolution, Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist World-View: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology". 252 pages. http://www.cornellevolutionproject.org/...

Is religion/politics a major influence in domination and control rather than just human nature? It's natural for living beings to demonstrate behaviour of power and control. However, all species limit this behaviour, except for the case of humans. It is only in human culture we see the abuse...

I'm not really going to comment to much on this. I was just wondering what some people's opinions were on the differences, if any, between philosophy and religion. I think some confusion arises because there can be more than one meaning to the word "philosophy". It could mean a belief system...

Tell me if you think this is a possibility: It came to me in Church today. Could religion be instilled in us through evolution as a way of allowing us to have intelligence and consciousness and not kill ourselves in large amounts? If everybody realized that there was no point to life aside...

Questioning the Delphic Oracle "DELPHIC ORACLE is shown inhaling vapors in this photographic interpretation, because new evidence supports ancient assertions that intoxicating gases were a source of her inspiration. In reality, the gases would have been invisible."...

Even Less Religion In Our Government Yay! http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/07/01/tencommandments.appeal.ap/index.html The ten commandments monument in front of an alabama state supreme court building must go! Yay! man this past year the supreme court sure has done some nice and LOGICAL things!

The collapse of religions, mass suicides, the collapse of governments? What would the result be if, as I suspect, it [edit to avoid confusion] was generally believed that some highly advanced civilization - one completely beyond our reach or understanding in any technical or intellectual sense...

Science as we know it and think of it began 3-400 years ago and progressed steadily until around the turn of the last century. Science had a number of greats but probably none greater than Issiac Newton who discovered gravity by as the legend goes having an apple hit him in the head...

You all know that Albert Einstein was deeply religious in his pantheistic veneration of the physics of nature. No scientist today should be surprised to learn that Einstein was completely wrong about true religion. This paper is about outrageously religious ideas in the philosophy of physics...

The important difference between science and religion is that religion comes with ABSOLUTE statements, that neither can be proved or disproved, and science evolves from relative truths and statements, that can be testified and proven false (which means: science has to develop, in order to...

The important difference between science and religion is that religion comes with ABSOLUTE statements, that neither can be proved or disproved, and science evolves from relative truths and statements, that can be testified and proven false (which means: science has to develop, in order to...