What if we had a scientific explanation to everything religion tries to explain?

Nothing more or less than it is now.

I imagine that I'd want to kill you for making yet another religion thread.

We already have people who still hold religious beliefs that are in direct opposition to science, so religion would likely always exist in some form. If we had scientific explanations for everything then less people would likely believe (hopefully anyway), but it'd still be around. You'll always have nuts that think science is God's way of testing our faith or some nonsense.

"God made science."

Nothing will change. Though I hate when people insult those who believe in religion.

Religious people can be annoying by telling me about it and preaching, but they have to do it.

As an atheist there's no need to insult those who believe in something different just because you think you're correct. Never before have I been insulted by someone who believe in God, but all you see is atheists calling Christians idiots.

The fact is that no one in this generation will know until we're dead. Even then if reincarnation is true or even if we just die we will still never know.

quote BeZ

I imagine that no matter how much science eventually proves you'll still get religions relying on faith.

Some people just want to live in ignorance.

I understand where you are coming from but there are several reasons why this is a somewhat ignorant statement. The first and primary reason is that in the field of science, every academician worth his or her salt adheres to the slogan that, "Today's science is tomorrow's fallacy."

The fact of the matter is that if you look at the long and illustrious history of science, you will see that very often, arguably more often than not, science simply gets it wrong. It may "work" for the given technological level that the society is at at that point in history (including ours) but in the end, things change and change FAST. Many centuries ago, "The Earth is flat" represented the best scientific knowledge of its time, and you know what? Given the level of practically applicable physics, biology, and mathematics, that premise actually worked all right for its time. The periodic table of elements, over the last hundred plus years, has undergone profound fundamental changes and still continues to do so this day. Newton, the greatest physicist of his time, was proved WRONG in so many ways with regard to particles that travel REALLY fast. Yet, for everyday purposes, for many centuries, Classical Mechanics functioned incredibly well despite its limitations, because we had no ability to measure speeds above .1C (10% of the speed of light) where Newtonian Mechanics begins to fail.

What science that we accept as ABSOLUTE, unimpeachable, and unassailable today will tomorrow's "Flat Earth" or outmoded system of mechanics? What discoveries and "proofs" as of yet undiscovered will herald the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd centuries, only to be discarded as useless centuries following their discovery?

It is this reason why science is completely silent on the issue of God. LMAO Not that you can tell this to most Christians or other Fundamentalist religions, mind you! These so-called "Creation scientists" will distort and contort science and create pseudo-science as their so-called PROOF that God absolutely exists or that Creation and NOT evolution is more rational. They will completely IGNORE the fact that to the best of our understanding in our present level of technology, evolution is a a fact of life. You are sort of doing the same thing in reverse, though. Because how much of what we take for granted as unequivocal fact in, say Evolution, will be disproved tomorrow?

So even if scientists in their zeal for the empirical truth proclaim tomorrow or the next day that "God does NOT exist, period, the end, and I can prove it!" we have no idea whether or not such a postulate will indeed stand the test of time.

Remember, science is ALWAYS changing and evolving. This means that people who have faith in whatever God they believe in should not despair even if everything SEEMS to point in the direction of atheism, because you just never know what will and will not be proved and disproved in the centuries to come.

For now, however, people who fancy themselves as creation scientists can writhe and squirm all they like, but science DOES NOT prove creation over Evolution, and in fact, at least points to just the opposite. On the other hand, as I already said, science is SILENT on the issue of faith and whether or not God exists.

I read a thing a while ago about similarities between the bible and alien beliefs. First one being Mary, getting randomly impregnated by 'god'. Then there was how people think aliens can establish a mental connection with humans, and thats how they hear our prayers. There was alot of other stuff I cant remember at the moment.

It doesnt matter what your beliefs are, it was an interesting read.