Science Drinks Your Gods

In a letter to Nature, Matthew Cobb and Jerry Coyne sum up what we have been saying for years:

In reality, the only contribution that science can make to the ideas of religion is atheism.

Every mystery explained by experimentation and rationalism makes every god a little bit smaller, a little less relevant, and a little less competent.

Surely science is about finding material explanations of the world -- explanations that can inspire those spooky feelings of awe, wonder and reverence in the hyper-evolved human brain.

And religion?

Religion, on the other hand, is about humans thinking that awe, wonder and reverence are the clue to understanding a God-built Universe. (The same is true of religion's poor cousin, 'spirituality', which you slip into your Editorial rather as a creationist uses 'intelligent design'.) There is a fundamental conflict here, one that can never be reconciled until all religions cease making claims about the nature of reality.

Science drinks religions' milkshake!