Religion as a Method of Explanation

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Where did fire come from' If you ask a Hindu, they will say that the god Agni produces fire. If you ask an Roman religionist, they will say that the god Prometheus brought fire down to earth. If you ask a physicist, they will give you the truthful answer: fire is produced by atoms vibrating at high velocities.

Where do metals come from' If you ask a Roman religionist, they will say that the god Pluto placed them in the earth. If you ask a chemist, they will give you the truthful answer: metals are caused by the fusion of atoms in suns. Where do women come from' If you ask a Christian, they will say that god created woman from the rib bone of man. If you ask a biologist, they will give you the truthful answer: men and women evolved from asexual species as a means of diversifying the gene pool. What of the winds, lightning, animals, medicine, warriors, the flute, and - in general - the world and its workings' Where did they come from' Religion has already given its answers. The answers that satisfied primitive man who believed the world to be flat and diseases caused by demons are not answers that science has verified. In fact, the very opposite has happened: where religion made a shortcut explanation of something that individuals could not once understand, science has destroyed the superstition and provided a real answer that was backed up with evidence, logic, and reason. The sun does not cross the sky because the god Apollo pulls it across in his chariot, nor is the sun a god - the sun is a mass of hydrogen atoms that ......