> > Alright, thousands of years ago, and even now (although a lot less prevalent), there were many relgions based on fable-like stories. Things like the sun was a bird who flew across the skies, and that men held locusts in caves and released them at certain times, and things of that sort. These things can be disproven. I think that this is one of the main reasons that Christianity, Islam, and the like have replaced them in many parts of the world. While these earlier religions could be proven to be wrong, Judaism and such cannot be.
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> I think there is more to it than that. I'll go into why below, sort of.
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> > Then comes the next step. Although Judaism, Christianity, Islam, etc. can't be proven wrong, they also can't be proven true. Basically the arguments between believers and non-believers are settled not on scientific evidence, but on faith or lack there of. This is where I think the next "religion" may take over. Science. I think that science is a religion of sorts, and unlike the previous two forms of religion, science cannot be wrong, because it's ever changing, and based on the scientific evidence that we would use to prove other religions wrong.
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> I would like to point out that your last line there makes on large assumption: You assume that other religions ARE wrong.
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I was worried that someone would think that that is what I meant. What I *really* meant is that when people are trying to prove that religions such as Christianity/Judaism/SomeOtherReligion wrong, they *use* science to try to do it. I'm not saying that the other religions ARE wrong, just that science is used to try to show that they are. For all I know, the other religions may not even depend on science to be true. Or maybe our scientific knowledge isn't great enough now to understand how things that the other religions say happened could have happened.

> > Wes - "Why is it that all my posts are always so incoherant and stupid? 'Because you're incoherant and stupid.' Oh. Well. That makes sense then."
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> Don "I don't think Wes is incoherent and stupid--in fact, I thought that a lot of this made a lot of sense. I went through a similar line of thinking myself a few years back, so I can see where this comes from" Monkey

Wes - "Oh, yeah, right. Someone named Don the Monkeyman says he's had the same thoughts as me and that's supposed to make me feel *better*? ;-)"