The Great Debate: "Has Science Refuted Religion?"
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Channel: Skeptic
Views: 227,552
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Keywords: Sean Carroll, Michael Shermer, Dinesh DSouza, Ian Hutchinson, science and religion, religion, God, belief
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Length: 125min 17sec (7517 seconds)
Published: Tue Mar 27 2012
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The debate is based on a poor question which gave the theists an easy out. Instead of addressing the arguments against religion they focused on "well science hasn't proven us wrong!" As if that's a good enough reason to believe in something.
Without it taking 2 hours of my day, do the arguments go beyond "investigation removes god of the gaps", countered by "non-overlapping magesteria", followed by a polite "the only reason you're in the magesteria business is because that's all you have left"?
Without watching the video, I'll respond with my own answer. I don't think it has refuted a god. However, it has definitely refuted certain religions. I think this includes Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, at least. I don't know enough about other religions to comment on them. I suppose I'd base this on the many scientific inaccuracies and impossibilities in the holy books. I know I wasn't there, but I know that there haven't been any "miracles" in about 2000 years. I also know this isn't the best argument ever made and that I haven't provided much evidence, but you get my point.