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Human survival + religion

posted 20 years ago by Nkalksma
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In the series they assume that the human race will outlive the earth. This is a remarkable vote of confidence in our race, which I personally share. I really believe science will prevail one day instead of a couple of vague religions based on a few books which in my opinion are no more than travelreports and 'novels' from the past. (Yes I am talking about the Bible and the Koran).

Maybe when people in general start thinking a little more scientific or simply open their minds they wouldn't fight over 'which book is right' and start looking further than these religions which do no more than comfort people in their existence and blind them from the rest of the world (and the universe for that matter).

Jesus Christ was no more than a good man who loved humanity. Why christianity went completely over the top? I don't know. If you want to believe in something, believe in yourself and believe in the human race. Not someone who died approximately 2000 years ago or something called God which is merely a name for something we can't understand (yet). Science will one day figure out how we got here and what life means.

I have faith in the human race, I don't think we will destroy ourselves.

But ofcourse, it is your life, do with it what you want!

[–] Belnick 20 years ago

well I hope religion is illigal by then, death sentence if cought....

[–] jingsbroli 19 years ago

i don't think religion doesn't have to do anything about it. it was just a passion in the past that has been passed on to our generation, just something to make people believe differently and act different.
i myself am a muslim, sort of religios, but space truely is amazing. have you seen that video that talks about ("MIracles of Koran" about space , and the universe), you know in the Koran it actually says that there are more than 18,000 different species out there in space. that's one of the reasons i am so interested about space.if so i agree but i think nothing out there has to do anything witht religion. Space is truly amazing, realy interesting. so the bottom line is that religion has nothing to do with it.
i myself love space, i would love to study and learn all the wonderfull things about it.

[–] dreanmak22 17 years ago

Koran is a simply a copy of the bible by a person who lived centuries ago after Jesus had lived and wanted to manipulate his fellows to serve his purposes.There are few differencies and one BIG difference from the bible that says if you KILL an unbeliever you will go to heaven.Why the Koran says there are more than 18,000 different species out there in space?There could be million defferent species or only the mankind and the animals that inhabit this planet.I believe in one God, because someone had to cause the BIG BANG in order to start the physical chaining reaction, but i can't believe that we are the only specie in the universe.My logic doesn't let me.The space or the universe is TOO *beep* BIG to be the earth, the ONLY planet that has life and also intelligence life.I believe that because I take the possibility to exist ONLY one spicie in ONLY one planet in each galaxy that could have a change to live.At list in primitive form.So,i can't believe that there are more than 18,000 different species in the universe.It's too small number.I believe that there are more than 500.000.000 different species in the universe, because this is the number of the galaxies that are in the universe.So,humanity will find the way and will survive from the "monsters" of the universe.(At least she will have that possibility after 500 years, who knows!)

[–] miloke 19 years ago

I'm afraid we're going to be stuck with religion for a while longer ... .
It's just a human craving to believe in something not tangeable, something that's above us. Some believe in God, some in Allah, some in astrology, heck ... others believe in Elvis. Whatever it may be ... we'll have to outgrow it. And by outgrowing I mean evolution guys... so yeah it's going to take a long time before those brain cells start relaxing and seeing the world as it truelly is. We're not robots. We're animals. And animals have instincts, hopes and dreams. We may have shed our tails and hair, but we still need to outgrow religion (ANY religion). The only problem is that when we... if we ge that far... we won't be human beings any longer. But something more (or less in a way).

hmmmm ... well i'll just stop rambling for now :)

[–] abc_and_d 19 years ago

I think it is fear and especially the fear of death that has led humans to believe in something. It is God, Allah, the sun, the moon, anything that will help them to believe that there is life after death. If science figures out what life and death really mean, this thing will fade away.

As for the human race outliving the earth; I don't think we deserve that. This earth (and any other) would be better off without us. If we act like a terrible virus infecting the whole planet, then I am not so sure about giving a vote of confidence to our species.

[–] huge-pete01 18 years ago

man u guys are..., science explains the physical implements of our universe, and religion explains what is beyond that. You are all waiting for science to one day explain god, pff pathetic.

[–] dolphinvillas 18 years ago

Why would science want to explain God? It would no more try to explain fairies and leprechauns.

"We had it good there for a while."
The West Wing 1999-2006

[–] alexandertilita-1 18 years ago

Science does not explain only physical implements, it is starting to explain things that go beyond the physical realm. it will in some time even explain the concept of GOD and how to achive godlike states. Although I am a ferm beliver in all that is science I do also belive that we will not outgrow religion, we will only adapt it. basicly, religion is more of a guide of what not to do and what to do because without it we would become a savage race on interstellar travellers, a thing I don't want. On the the other hand religion is the one thing that has kept scientific discoveries 900 years, a thing for which I will allways have a grudge on religion. But in conclusion when we discover the true things that led to the formation of the large number of religions, which in my view are all about the same: One God, Good Morals and stuff like that. But hey I also belive God is actually a extraterestrial enteti that saw a planet with potential and considered it needed to belive in something in order to survive, So you decide for youself

[–] Serata 18 years ago

I find this topic very interesting, in light of recent discoveries in Quantum mechanics that actually point to the existance of God. Rather than two seperate organisms, they are one.

In Quantum mechanics (forgive me if I'm being basic) there are electrons which behave completely according to their own set of rules. But when we watch them, they behave completely differently (Young's Double Slit, EPR experiment, Compton Scattering effect, in case any of you are research fanatics). This implies that there are basic assumptions in the world of science that must be taken on faith, just as religion must. There is absolutely no way to explain what we cannot see (Copenhagen interpretation), so it creates a paradox- we must accept that there is a consious observer, and since there is an observer, there must be something beyond the physical body. After all, scientists have searched high and low, but no one has yet found anything called an "observer."

I belive that science and nature aren't opposed to each other. The realization that will lead to our survival will be that they are really the same thing.

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[–] perfect_angel93 16 years ago

Some scientists even believe there is no such thing as death asenergy can only be transferred not destroyed.

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