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Janice asked this question about The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2):
As to the question...a world without religion or without science...I would live without religion
Ruth There is no real situation where that choice would ever be offered. Those are two completely different things, not different sides of the same coin. S…moreThere is no real situation where that choice would ever be offered. Those are two completely different things, not different sides of the same coin. Science explains our existence, how we exist, when we exist, what might one day exist. Religion is what people choose to believe in order to give meaning to that existence.

Religion, in other words, exists in our minds, and it needs us humans in order to exist on this planet in the first place (whether you believe in God or not, whether He exists or not). Science, on the other hand, (the objective reality of our universe and the way it operates) would exist whether or not we were here and whether or not we were religious. So how can one even comprehend a world in which one can choose between the two?(less)
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The Da Vinci Code
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