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By Austin Cline, About.com Guide to Atheism since 1998

Godless Science vs. Religion: Why & How Godless Science is Superior to Religion

Tuesday August 26, 2008
The debate between science and religion goes on without resolve and without satisfaction for any involved. We might get somewhere if we narrowed the terms of debate a bit: on what grounds are we attempting to compare the two? There are many possible points of comparison; here I shall briefly summarize how science is superior to religion in terms of improving the lives, health, and welfare of humanity on a very basic level and all around the world.

 

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August 27, 2008 at 9:11 am
(1) richard, UK says:

“Humanity Needs More Science, Not More Religion”

Hear, hear, science has let humanity out from under the shroud of relgious bigotry. You only need to look at the atrocities done when religion had its grip on the world in the middle ages to demonstrate why it should not be allowed to reach those depths again.

Science has opened up so much about how our word works. Children know what causes thunder, lightning, earthquakes and eclipses.
left to religion, these would still be used to instil fear into their followers.

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