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Originally Posted by Vick!
you guys put too much weight on science. Why cannot your science explain goddamn death? What actually it is and why it cannot be stopped?
Thousands and thousands years gone, man has reached moon .. whatever .. but why cannot you still stop a man from dying? Why at a stage doctors says to patient that they cannot do anything?
People believe in bible because it tells them why at a stage doctors become helpless. They tell them there is a still a supernatural power called God. Who said "Every living thing should must die" ... and your science had not been able to falsify it.
I am posting some images in next post .. further ranting is postponed till then ;)
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Science may not be able to explain what death is, in the ontological sense, but it certainly has a monopoly on real world and pragmatic explanations of what it is and why it occurs.
I'm not quite sure why, in your mind, you equate discovering the key to immortality with traveling to the moon. However, if the expanding horizons of science took us from Earth dwellers to soon-to-be moon dwellers, then it's possible to conclude that it will soon lead us toward a path of immortality. Every generation of great minds discovers a little bit more, just as they did when discovering the feasiblity of space travel.
Science may not be able to falsify God, but in the same right, religion cannot prove that God exists. This is the classic argumentum ad ignorantiam fallacy. You cannot reason that "just because science has not disproven God's falsity that God actually exists".
Though, you do touch on one key concept, and that is one of helplessness, which is certainly a major motivating factor in religious belief. If someone feels they are helpless and alone in this world, they may turn their thoughts to a higher power that can comfort them emotionally.