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Originally Posted by GrobbeeTrull2.0  Not all facets of Intelligent Design say that it's the God of Abraham that made everything. |
I don't care if it's the Abrahamic God, the Hindu gods, or freaking Quetzalcoatl. It's just silly creation myths that are fine, and have their place, and certainly comfort people. But there is no basis for fact behind any of that stuff, and we shouldn't taint our education system or our methods of rational inquiry and scientific progress with such lines of thought.
I'm not saying that religion has no place in the world. In fact, I'd say that religion has accomplished far more good than bad in the course of human history. It's debatable that humanity ever would have settled down and civilized had it not been for spirituality and organized religion. At the same time, religion has no place in science. Science is inquiry into the observable and the real; religion is inquiry into the unseen and the spiritual. Those two fields of thought can exist side by side, but we shouldn't start allowing one side to dictate the affairs of the other.