Would you rather live in a world without religion…or a world without science?

[James]

Ron wrote: "Must they be mutually exclusive?"

That is precisely the question. Science and religion deal with utterly separate spheres, and there's no contradiction in the co-existence of the two.

Great point!

[Noura]

Personally I think that religion and science are related. science proves religion. But if I had to choose I would choose a world without science, because I will be able to find all the answers in Quran.

[Nicole]

Religion - no question.
The benefits of science are many, and have been iterated in many forms earlier in this string.
I disagree with the assumption that items like faith and spirituality are only found through religion - which generally assumes the existence of a higher power. I have faith in many things but am not religious. I can feel the wonder of the world around us without believing in a god.

[Ron]

Nicole wrote: "Religion - no question.
The benefits of science are many, and have been iterated in many forms earlier in this string.
I disagree with the assumption that items like faith and spirituality are only..."

Didn't you just explain what your religion is?

[Maddie]

Religion and Science are exactly the same thing they just use different means to answer the same questions. Science was developed from religion. It would not have come into being without religion. Science also would have overtaken everything without religion. Religion held it in check to be morally right. You cannot have one without the other. Beyond that they are the same. Religion uses words and accepts that some things cannot be explained while Science tries to find answers to the same questions. The first scientists were monks and other religious people. It is like asking someone to pick between breathing and oxygen. It is the same thing in two different forms.

[Sally Atwell]

A world without religion.

[Nicole]

Ron. I didn't explain my religion since I don't believe in religion. But I was attempting to posit ways in which items typically associated with religion can be experienced by even folks such as myself. I am a living example of living with and for one (science) is possible without the other.

[Denis]

Having seen what religion does to people and the world in the way of wars and killing in the name of some kind of God or belief, I pick science and prefer to live in a world without religion.

[James]

In many ways they are linked together. Religion provides or needs to provide the ethics & values for how we use science. Science is based on truth, & religion tends to support truth, when there is no truth in science or religion, then both will fail. Politics & economics tend to blur truth for the purpose of gathering wealth, often for a select few. Our human relationships with people & nature must be based on truth, but it seems to be in short supply in our culture. Science may dominate in this life, but when this life ends, then the only hope must come from religion. When we die there is either something or nothing. If there is something, there might be a few options. We may learn a few things about religion after we die, but in this life we can only hope. Nature is the great teacher in science & religion, but we tend to ignore what it is telling us. Read: Romans 1: 17-21.

[Frances]

It's faith that is quintessential, not religion or science, although faith is the core of each.

[Alida]

Without religion ..but religion is for our morality and science for our intellect. Without both we humans can't be moulded.

[Kirk]

A world without religion? Sign me up!

[Amit]

I think we are mixing Religion with God. We can easily live without any religion if we just have faith in a supreme power. One of the Bollywood movies defined religion (any religion) very nicely - Religion either makes a man helpless or a terrorist.

Science on the other hand is directly related to development of human beings and had been there since we first discovered how to create fire. So, leaving science is no option at all...