Religion is not Merely Science Religion is not Merely Science Religion, like science, is man's attempt to understand the universe around him. From the point of view of evolutionary ethics, even the most brilliant physics in the world is ultimately of no more value than a stone tied to a stick compared to the sacred divinity of the race of man that created it. Our prime directive and the purpose of life must be to maintain and improve the consciousness of the universe. Scientific knowledge will be ever increasing as a direct result of that.
Science is a tool created by man and is less than man.
It would be the height of folly for a man to become so fascinated and enamored of a tool which he himself had created as to be prompted to sacrifice his own life or dignity to it. There can be no greater error and no greater evil than that of placing man beneath science. Man is the most sacred divine creature in all the universe and all the things are to serve him. To place knowledge or science above life is to deify science. The deification of science is atheism.