On 6/30/2020 6:50 AM, Philip Thrift wrote:
by Forbes physics writer (it is a bit odd Forbes has a regular physics columnist): https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/06/30/no-science-will-never-make-philosophy-or-religion-obsolete/ @philipthrift
He's right that science probably won't replace religion, but he doesn't understand the reason. He writes as though it's because science hasn't answered questions about the origin of life, the origin of the universe, etc. But those are scientific questions and it won't make any difference when they are answered. Religion (as sociologists all say) exists to explain why a community's ethos is validated and mandated by the universe. A community needs to cooperate on a lot of things. Some of them can be justified/explained by functionality. But there are others that are somewhat arbitrary. And there are many local optima in the social space. It's religion, including "civil religion" that re-enforces these.
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