Vance Dubberly

I don’t understand how anybody could imply that discussing Religion is discussing morality and Science is not. To confuse religion with morality is to the same a confusing science with technology. Science is a methodology for discovering and validating truth through empirical experience. Technology can be developed and was for most of human history without Science. Religion is a method of describing reality through metaphor, analogy, and revelation while it makes claims about morality, those claims are often contradictory and vary from religion to religion. As the truth which religion describes is proved invalid by the methodology of science it must be abandoned as the answers which are provided by science are always truer than those provided by religion. First science has circumvented religions metaphysical claims, then is physical claims, now many of it’s social claims, next and even to a small degree now are it’s moral claims. To participate in a discussion of religion is to talk about our social myths, to participate in a discussion of science is to talk about reality, moral, technological, physical, biological or otherwise. Unfortunately neither our public nor our politicians ( if they want to be elected ) acknowledge this.