Comment Re:Someone has to ask this: (Score 1) 498
To state simply the difference between religion and science, I would say:
Religion explains little and claims to be the Truth. Faith is required of the user.
Science explains much and does not claim to be the Truth. "Faith in Science" is an oxymoron.
Shameless hucksters, who claim to have unified science and religion by seeking scientific proof of God or whatever, disgust me. But what if Science could progress to a point where it could claim to know the Truth?
Leaving out all the mundane obstacles to scientific discovery in the human world, do you think it is possible for a sentient entity to finally understand the universe (or even some fundamental part of it) from within, by means of observation and experiment? Would a Grand Unified Theory of physics accomplish this, or would it take something else?
I have this cartoon in my head of some balding guys in lab coats next to a giant cyclotron, looking at a clipboard and saying, "Well, that's it. We've finally got the Truth! Who wants coffee?"
