“Science could never replace religion because it does aim at simply describing
what happens in naturalistic terms. What causes what, what theoretical
assumptions can unify our observations? So it by nature can never talk about
ultimate reality, unless of course the atheists are right and the universe
itself is ultimate reality.”
-- Nancey Murphy
Can science replace religion?
Science could never replace religion because it does aim at simply describing what happens in naturalistic terms. What causes what. What theoretical assumptions can unify our observations? So it by nature can never talk about ultimate reality, unless of course the atheists are right and the universe itself is ultimate reality. Then it's talking about ultimate reality, but it can never prove that the universe itself is ultimate. So we always need to answer the question, what is the ultimate reality? And while religions can't answer that definitively, science by nature is blind to those issues.
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