Scientific Knowledge Increases a Person's Interest In Life More So Than Religion Does

Though for the matter of having a good debate and making it more interesting to the voter, I tend to disagree with your concepts of having a God involved in Science. It also depends entirely on whose God you are referring to? If it is the Christian, or God of Abraham, then you can forget about it being involved anywhere in science as the scriptures supporting that God are scientifically inept to the extreme and since the science I have most interest in is Neuroscience, the hiding place for the Christian God is now nowhere else in the universe but in the human mind and neuroscience is pushing this God further and further back into the mind's internal caves. Gradually but surely neuro-psychology will likely discover how and why the human mind created the Christian God. If you are referring to the God of Spinoza, Einstein or the Agnostic's/Deistic God that started the forces of the universe and no longer interferes (Performs Magic) then it can be acceptable in science, since Science cannot accept interference by an Agency (Magic) in any form. Since Science is about predictability and having an Agent (Magician) interfering destroys any predictability. Spinoza's God, which Einstein also referred to is more a collection of or source of the Universal laws and forces in an infinitely powerful entity which does not necessarily have an intelligence of its own. Though it does not interfere with those laws nor have anything to do with Humanity or the Earth. In other words, Spinoza's God does not interfere with it's natural laws in response to activities nor beliefs of humans, so it does not perform Magic on our behalf, like the Gods of other religions. Though the Deistic/Agnostic's God does not interfere either, so they are also acceptable to Science. . http://en.wikipedia.org...A scientific statement with an existing meddlesome Agent included would have to be. From the premises A, B and C, the resultant should be X providing the Agent doesn't interfere. Thus Science cannot function properly while an active intelligent agency can affect natural forces. Thus Science cannot account for nor include the Christian God as that God has been demonstrated by scripture to mess with the natural forces by performing magic spontaneously and irrationally. Though there is no evidence that any such magic has ever occurred in recent history. So science essentially does not consider the existence of any such agency or God. Religion and Science are not opposites in any form of dichotomy, but they have absolutely no convergence either. The only agreement I have ever found between Religion and Science is apart from the Sun exists, is in Buddhism which also considers Consciousness and thus our Reality as an illusion constructed by our physical brain structures. . http://buddhism.about.com...How Can Scientific Knowledge Make Life More Interesting:Misconceptions Of Science: Many consider science as cold and uncaring, also they view it as a Reductive Model, where complexity is built like a building from bricks and naturally complex things, such as buildings/organisms are reduced to basic building blocks/bricks/cells/DNA. Correcting these Misconceptions: They are partly right, as science often works at the basic level on Reductionism principles, but when things are reduced to what were once perceived as basic building blocks, Science suddenly changes and the principles of Reduction no longer apply. Scientists have discovered that these basic building blocks are themselves equally as complex as the organisms they started exploring. The complexity never diminishes, it can in some cases appear to increase as scientists get closer to the tiniest entities/particles they are able to observe. Quantum mechanics is an example of this. At one time, The Atom was considered the source of all matter, it was considered as the Brick that all matter was constructed from. When the Atom was actually isolated, it was discovered to be composed of smaller particles, electrons and protons and these were the considered the smallest bricks until things did not add up mathematically with weights and isotopes of elements. So they theorized that other particles such as the neutron must exist. Though it has snowballed and now no Scientist has any idea as to what the smallest particle may be, as according to such things as "String Theory" there may be an infinite array of smaller particles, each producing a smaller effect on matter, but still having an influence due to population of particles. So, it is a never ending search for Scientists and the number of hypotheses increase, instead of the once perceived notion of ancient times, that if we can discover the smallest particle, science can solve all the questions in the Universe. Instead, Science has now discovered that, the more questions it finds answers for, the more new questions it now has to find answers to. So Science is a Never Ending search for answers to many new and fascinating questions. This is where Scientific Knowledge is constantly changing and for those who have developed an interest and studied Science properly, are often deeply fascinated by one of the many fields Science has to offer, and practically, science has a field for everybody. My current interests are in Neuro-psychology, yet I still have interest in Archaeology, Anthropology, Electronics and some particle physics as well as biology and medicine. Though I also have a vested interest in Information Science and Robotics. For many with a broad knowledge of science, it is like a lifelong Romance and making even your own simple personal discoveries is often extremely enjoyable, some say making such discoveries are are more exciting than sex or skydiving. These personal discoveries may already be discovered or known, but that doesn't matter nor diminish the finding in any way, if they are already known and published, it means you have been thinking and working scientifically. So, a person can have an enthralling and consuming passion for Science for their entire life. It can be a never ending, always exciting Romance. I know now why many like Einstein valued Science far more than Religion. . http://www.amazon.com...Now back to Con for a differing opinion: