Open Mind writes:
It is obvious that religion is not just a jumble of stories, myths, and practices that make no sense but are followed out of tradition.
No, it is not obvious. Seem the most likely explanation. Care to say why your statement is true?
Open Mind writes:
Religious beliefs must all have reasons behind them.
You are right here, but I would assert that in the absence of any positive evidence for the veracity of those beliefs we must conclude that they are like the beliefs we hold about any magical phenomena.
Open Mind writes:
Science can therefore be considered a religion that believes in a strictly physical world and one that hides nothing from the five senses.
Science does not 'believe in' anything. It measures what is 'there' and (through the scientific process) makes predictions.
Open Mind writes:
If science would consider a supernatural being not bounds by the constraints of humans to be a possibility, many of the scientific principles can be challenged.
It does view supernatural things as possible (well, a vanishingly small possiblity) but so far the evidence for the 'supernatural' is zero. If you have any, take it to James Randi and win a million bucks.
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Open Mind writes:
A good example is gravity. Maybe there are little spirits that hold people to the floor and a supernatural being, undetected by man, is controlling this spirit.
Yout not up on what gravity is then, are you?
Seriously, one could pull ideas like that out of ones arse all day and it would not support your position that science is a religion.
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