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Science doesn't lead to secularism

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Not only isn't religion not going away, it is thriving. More, any attempt by scientists to indoctrinate or supplant religious faith backfires and hurts the efforts of science education and findings.

I've never thought of there being an intellectually honest hostility between science and faith. I was curious about the mechanism of existence as an atheist and I'm if anything more interested as an adherent. To my mind science and religion are only enemies in the hands of people who aren't using at least
one of them correctly.
 
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I've never thought of there being an intellectually honest hostility between science and faith.
There is no hostility between science and faith. It is only when some try to redefine science as materialism.

I was curious about the mechanism of existence as an atheist and I'm if anything more interested as an adherent.
What is an "adherent"? What do you adhere to?

To my mind science and religion are only enemies in the hands of people who aren't using at least
one of them correctly.
BINGO!
 
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from Lon's link:
In 1966, just over 50 years ago,


the distinguished Canadian-born anthropologist Anthony Wallace confidently predicted the global demise of religion at the hands of an advancing science: ‘belief in supernatural powers is doomed to die out, all over the world, as a result of the increasing adequacy and diffusion of scientific knowledge’. Wallace’s vision was not exceptional. On the contrary, the modern social sciences, which took shape in 19th-century western Europe, took their own recent historical experience of secularisation as a universal model. An assumption lay at the core of the social sciences, either presuming or sometimes predicting that all cultures would eventually converge on something roughly approximating secular, Western, liberal democracy. Then something closer to the opposite happened.






 
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