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Originally Posted by The Dragon
I disagree with what is said here because our ancestors used science to understand God. This is how they came to the conclusion that there was a "higher force" at work in them and in their immediate enviornments in the first place.
They observed natural phenonmena such as the sun rising every morning as awesome (not to mention all of the benefits they got from this), they observed such natural phenomena as the change in whether, the vast oceans and seas, etc. as something they knew they had absolutely no control over.
They believed that something ultimately did control all of this, something much more powerfull then these aspects of nature.
They realized that all of this was apart of something greater and consumated a "whole"; They took the pieces of the whole and began to study it and then reconnect it back with the whole. This is science and ultimately how they came to a conclusion of an all powerfull force we now know of as "God."
You cannot separate science from "God" and really make any kind of sense.
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Science seeks to see how things are ordered and maintained in order. Asserting who or what ordered them seems like it would rely on the personal beliefs of the person who is observing. It may influence how they view existence seeing all of these ordered things, but Science still makes sense without a religious or spiritual belief. To be able to separate it from all of these things with systematic methodology, Science is given a grounded position in what is observable. Anything else claiming to be Science is really just a pseudo-science with some sort of bias, agenda or just the reseult of bad science.
The limitations of understanding the whole self-similar "system" leave holes that could be investigated further through another means of thought, because Science can only answer perceived and testable tangible components of reality. It does not seek to answer all questions.
Science gives one a lot of things to think about, but its up to that person to draw their own extraneous conclusions.