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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by kaba0 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:07AM (#25929053)
The world may be rational, the human mind is definitely not (even when we believe so) - for some people, believing in a higher entity helps. And they can work harder because of it, or simply have better mental health.

Also, many scientists were/is religious, so let it be a personal choice, up until it doesn’t hurt others.

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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by anthk on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @06:01PM (#25935362)
>Also, many scientists were/is religious,

That's a fallacy, that won't make a religion real. Neither a paper. Just proofs and replication.

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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by kaba0 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:20PM (#25936257)
What about non-experimental questions, like how did life form? There is useful research regarding these questions with great, educated guesses on the unknowable parts - is it not science?

Also, nitpick but it would be absurd to call ‘religion’ not real. Like, one of the most fundamental organizations in the previous centuries is something I would not call non-existent. Whether God exists or not is a different, philosophical question - and to a degree it is similar to the how did life start on Earth question, with hypotheses that can’t necessarily be verified.

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