RE: Why Consciousness Exists (repost)
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After 14.5 billion years of evolution, the greatest achievement of the universe is the arrangement of lifeless atoms inside conscious living beings that are able to reflect on it's own existence, origin and meaning. We, my dear friends, are the pinnacle of a 14.5 billion year experiment.
Dear @zyx066 , Isn't science a kind of religion? You claimed that the age of the universe is 14.5 billion years. Can you know the age of the universe because you witnessed the birth of the universe? Perhaps you have claimed that the universe is 14.5 billion years old because you believe in the claims of others.
Of course, I believe @zyx066 is someone I can trust. Eventually, science and religions could be born because there was faith among humans.
Seeing that scientists can't even 100 percent agree on what matter really is, I'd definitely say that science is a belief system, but not a religion. And in the end, no matter if we have a world-view based on religion or science, belief in the claims of others is all we have. Science is merely the belief system that has most people agree on what reality is, even if it never claims to know what reality is. And in order for us to survive as a species it's paramount that we (mostly) agree on what reality is, even if we don't know for sure if we're right. It's complicated... I know... ;-)
Dear @zyx066 , I hope you understand that I don't understand 100% of your English.
Christianity is a religion in which God and humans make a contract based on mutual trust. God blesses humans in exchange for humans' belief in one god.
This contractual relationship was the foundation for creating Western democracy.
I think Western science and religion were also born with trust and agreement between humans.
Western science, as you argue, is based on trust and agreement between humans.