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This is a long time debate, but why? Every time a scientific discovery clashes with a religious belief, religion fights it and slows the progress of understanding. It causes scientists to waste time defending and promoting the facts that could be better spent learning more about our universe.

Science seeks to understand our universe. Nothing more. Science is not against God or religion. There is no scientific group bent on destroying religion, there are no science churches and no science Gods. Science does not try to disprove God. Science is completely separate from religion. Science is just for understanding our universe… I state that twice because of how important the point is.  So if science is not against religion, why is there a clash between science and religion? Because religion is against science. It always has been. Yes, there are religious scientists that do and have contributed a lot to our universal understanding, but that does not mean that religion is not fighting science. Galileo Galilei and Charles Darwin are two of the biggest examples of religion trying to destroy understanding.

Religion seeks to promote itself, teach its gospel and gain followers.  Things that are very far from science. So why do religious people attack science? For the same reasons it exists: to promote itself, teach its doctrines and gain followers. Why would someone start believing in the Bible if it is not accurate? It is very hard to convince someone to believe in the word of God if the word of a perfect being is fallible. For this reason religion fights to preserve itself. Is religion important? For most religious people, religion serves as a guideline to life that they strive to meet. Most people want to be good people because that is what keeps society from turning to chaos. For these people, religion provides a shortcut to supporting society by giving them rules and guidelines without them having to learn why those rules and guidelines are important.

Do we need religion for that? No, we don’t. Society can and has developed a set of rules and guidelines that will protect itself from individuals. The moral ideas can be explained simply by “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” No threat of a dad waiting around in the afterlife to paddle you for eternity… just the idea that you should understand what hurts you so you should not hurt someone else. The only problem with this moral is that it is very childlike and does not seek to understand how to treat other people entirely. This kind of moral is the stage of morals everyone learns after selfishness. People should strive to understand a higher moral philosophy, but it is a good start.