Re: Religious Festivities

Eric Christopherson <eric@...> wrote:

>Well, there are religious people in Star Trek, such as the Bajorans.
>Also, I was browsing through Arthur C. Clarke's _3001_ one time and it
>looked like people in that time frame believed in God, but called him
>by his Latin name, Deus, IIRC.
>
>Perhaps the idea is that humans have outgrown religion in favor of
>science.
Outgrown religion? Why should a culture outgrow religion? Religion and
science are two completely different spheres of expression, both equally
important to the identity of a culture. Is the idea that humans
inevitably grow out of religion when they discover science?

I would recommend the book "The Physics of Immortality". It's pretty
technical, kind of looney, but very interesting.



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