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Religion as a Method of Explanation
...... 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 the earth revolves around. So, surely, if we are to discover the truths of the Universe, if we are to understand the world and its workings - the physics, the mathematics, the chemistry - we best not dabble in the dogmatic scripture of past religions (the Bible, the Qur'an, the Vedas, the Talmud), yet we must examine the world.
Surely, then, if a man is wrong in saying that fire came from Prometheous, how right can another man be when he claims that an ill individual's health improving can be a miracle of the gods' Primitive man thought that the rainbow was a miracle from god, a sign from the divine. Today, however, the rainbow is recognized as a chemical reaction that can be reproduced with the right circumstances. As man enters the realm of science - a world of understanding, order, and general knowledge, - he inevitably leaves the realm of religion - a world of shortcut explanations, feasible attempts at ethics, and superstition. http://www.punkerslut.com/
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