Is Physics a religion?
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Physics is the study of science\nReligion is the study of philosophy\nJust before the Dark ages they had a parting of the ways
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As you ask in the science category: No, not in the scientific world.\n\nThere is no scientific theory that needs a god to explain something, and no evidence for the existence of a god is found in any experiment.\n\nI know that there are religious scientists, but they differ between their religion and their work. Religion can't be a part of science, because we have strict rules about scientific work. Experiments must be reproducible and theories have to be falsifiable: Religion doesn't fit both criteria, that's the difference between \ndeductive logic and pure belief whithout asking.\n\nAlthough in America creationists currently have a come back in disguise as pseudo-scientific intelligent design, this is not a scientific theory and just an USA related problem with christian fundamentalism and the education system.
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Just logic. Science has answered so many things about the world that religion hasn't been able to.\n\nThere is no need for religion or "Jesuses" anymore.
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Completely untrue. Countless societies throughout time have swung between religion and atheism. What you declare is a form of atheism called scientism. You state that our knowledge of the natural world is ever greater than before and with that new knowledge comes proof against God.\n\nThat is bogus and you know it. Think it through. If you told me that now we understand the inner workings of a cell or can map the paths of planets and that I no longer have to believe God has a hand in any of that, what do you think I would say?\n\nI would say the most annoying thing to those who believe in Scientism. "Yeah, so you just put words to what God created and still sets in motion."\n\nEverything that science defines, you have to realize, is merely a definition of the world. Science observes and describes and defines and even manipulates. But all this is done to and with the world that God created.\n\nI have a career in science. The more I learn about scientific theories the more I see how complex and cool God has made things.  When I see the inside of a person's body I marvel at the wonder of God. When I read about new states of matter beyond the three you think there are (got that from your 3rd grade textbook?) I thank God for the creativity placed in His creation.\n\nScience will never figure everything out. How short of a time ago was it when we didn't even know about strong interactions, weak force, and electromagnetism? How much longer before we define the other forces that we know are there, but can't get a hold on?\n\nAnd even if science could figure everything out, you are just plain narrow-minded in thinking it buys up God's property.\n\nScientism. So many believe in it for its logic it just doesn't have.
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Yes, assuming you actually meant "complement" not "compliment". \n\nPhysics will always leave some things unanswered.  No matter how much we understand, there is always another question, and a bit more that is unknown.  Some people find this circumstance uncomfortable. For them, religion can help them feel at ease. \n\nIf you mean as a part of science itself, the answer is "no." though you might say this is a semantic argument.  The moment an empirical observable enters the picture, it becomes a part of science. \n\n For instance, general relativity cannot describe the nature of the universe prior to the planck time.  A theory of quantum gravity is necessary for that.  Until then, one can easily say "God created the cosmic egg which expanded in the Big Bang" but that doesn't really help science move forward.  Eventually, maybe we unify gravity and the other forces and come up with a theory of quantum gravity. That will likely push our understanding closer to the origin, and maybe all the way to the origin of our universe, but probably won't explain the generation of the framework of natural laws that permitted our universe to originate. Again, you have room for a religious ultimate cosmology to explain where that framework came from, and again it does not help the physics at all, but will make some people feel better.\n\nReligion is not a part of the scientific method because it includes suppositions that are not based on the cycle of observe, hypthesize, test, observe. As soon as an element of religion enters that cycle, in my opinion it is a part of Physics.  I suppose you could say that Physics can be a subset of religion, but most religious dogmas conflict with science at some level; it does not have to be this way, but tends to be.  Note that I said "religious dogmas" and not "religions."  As near as I see it, most religions can get along side by side with Physics, it is only when people start making literal interpretations of religious teachings as descriptions of the physical world that they sometimes run afoul of science.
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Religion IS just a way of life.  It is also man made but is helps one keep some sort of focus on life for the better.  There is only one main religion, the religion of the heart which teaches LOVE.
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Yes. Religion is an organized system of belief in the divine.  In the context of religion, faith is the belief in such a system.
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It is not the purpose of most religions to explain the physical properties of the universe.  It is not God's stated purpose to teach the physical workings of the universe.  The bible pretty much leaves an open question regarding man's future and ongoing exploration of the physical universe.\n\nSo, yeah, I'd expect astronomers (atheist or otherwise) to tell us more about the universe that God.  I don't think that violates any expectations, religious or otherwise.
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The only faith required for science is the belief that the physical universe is at least partially knowable. Where gaps are filled in by conjecture, scientists are busy trying to prove or disprove the conjectures - no one takes it on faith. The fact that science may see things differently next year makes it very different from religion, where any change in the dogma leads to accusations of heresy and other histrionics. \n\nScience is also willing to admit it doesn't know everything, where religion expects you to accept it as absolute truth. Your understanding of science is very distorted; I hope you will manage to gain some education in that area.
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. \nAlbert Einstein\n\nI have always used science to help understand religion and religion to help understand science.
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He was not an atheist... otherwise he would not have made this statement...\n\n"The sphere of religion belongs the faith that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that it is comprehensible to reason. I can not conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image; science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." \n\n                                                                           Albert Einstein
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Religion in regards to Christianity is not opposed to science.  If something scientific is a true, valid fact, it will not be in opposition to the Bible, because Jesus is truth and rooted in history. \n\nThere is no physical energy present.  Both science and the Bible concur on this.  However, the Bible will go on to explain that you do have a soul which will continue on.
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Hell no. \n\nScience alludes to a rigorous process by which things are proven to be fact.\n\nAnything that is a matter of speculation (religion) cannot be considered scientific.\n\nHowever there is such a thing as the science of religion which is a sort of sociology. But this is sociology -- the scientific study of human behavior. \n\n It is not science like biology, physics, chemistry, calculus. Science is inherently unbiased, and non-subjective.\n\nAny religios text, Im afraid to say does not fall into any type of 'science' category. It may be studied in a Sociological or Philosophical context for enrichment purposes.\n\nI dont think anyone hates the Quran, or any religios text, rather I think that people dont like it when other people impose their views on them. There are 6 billion people in this world each with their own version of religion, we cant go around calling everyone infadels becaues they dont believe in the same things we do. \n\nI wouldnt want to live in a world where everyone was the same -- it would be boring.\n\nAs unpopular as Muslims may seem to be, let not the fact ellude you that catholics, mormons, christians, hindus, daoist, yoga hippies, all get their fair share of dislike. \n\nI mean take in the U.S. for example, most people dont like how the religious people try to impose their silly ideas of anti-abortion and creationism on the rest of us. \n\n At the end of the day there is always someone who doesnt like someone else (more Sociology) for some silly reason.\n\nI personally do not like people who are overly religious, and use religion to explain everything they dont understand, while there are perfectly good scientific reasons out there. In my humble opinion, religion and education are contradictory.\n\nAlas, despite our differences we must learn to get along.
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Science of course. Religion is all based on faith, and does not take well to critics. Not only that, there is no way at all to prove what is in the bible or you respective religious book. Some of the stories in the bible are completely devoid of physics. They make no sense. People argue that God could do anything he wanted to and made it the way he/she wanted. I have a counter for that. Why would God, being all good, want to deceive us??? If he made the universe in 6 days, why would he want to make it look like it took billions of years to accomplish.\n\nScience on the other hand is ever changing, and thrives on people trying to disprove it, that is the only way it can verify/disprove itself. \n\nScience and religion are two separate things. Religion gives you guidelines on how to live you life, and answers on morality. Science gives you guidelines on how nature works, and answers to where you came from.
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yes they do, the Quran explains the relationship between science and religion, read it (the english version).
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Science is man's way to explain the things of God, of His creation and the way He made things to work. What separates us from animals is that we have a conscience and are spiritual beings. As such, because we were made with a longing and desire for God, we will always have "religion" to explain our concepts of God. Despite all our philosophies and religious efforts to reach an understanding of God, like science, we still come up short. God did make a way for us to find Him, and that is exclusively through His son, Jesus Christ. That will be true even 2000 years from now. Jesus is the way, truth and life.
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Most martial arts do have a strong spiritual component.  But as to what makes a religion, I think you have done a pretty good job of summarizing.  However, I'm not sure I agree that "some religions have no god."  I think if they call it a religion, then the concept of God, in some form, is a part of that.  They may have a fairly abstract or intellectual version of it, but generally, there is such a concept.\n\nI may be wrong, though, about Buddhists, specifically.  Is the word "God" in some language used in Buddhism?  I know Gautama (sorry if it's not spelled right) is not considered a god, exactly, but in some sense divine.  Is Nirvana actually a oneness with God?