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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
Never said it had anything to do with science.
Science gives you the tools to keep you alive in a cold uncaring universe. A society's willingness to use them keeps it alive.
Religion? Well I guess you could try and pray away the barbarians at the city walls.
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Your disdain for matters of faith aside, I think you are missing the point. The video postulates that people have acted in religious matters out of fear, and that this has led mankind down a destructive path. What you are illustrating is the desire to turn to science out of that same fear, leading mankind along exactly the same path, which has been the case throughout recorded history. And so we come, again, to my central premise. This is not a problem with religion. This is not a problem with science. Religion and science are both constructs of humanity, which makes them convenient foils. The problem, rather, is with humanity itself.
We can fly among the stars with impunity, carrying whatever miraculous new inventions that have come through our study of science. The problem is that we will be taking ourselves along as well.