Is Science the new religion? - Debate!

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We, the human beings, have begun to place the same blind belief in science that we had in religion several centuries ago. Scientists are the new messiahs for the educated masses among us. Quoting Bertrand Russell, the British Mathematician and Philosopher said, -

Intellectual integrity made it quite impossible for me to accept the war myths of any of the belligerent nations. Indeed, those intellectuals who accepted them were abdicating their functions for the joy of feeling themselves at one with the herd.

For years, the Mahatmas have told us to not believe anything at face value, not even what they preached.
The scientific method suggest that inquiry be based on empirical and measurable evidence supporting a particular hypothesis.
And every scientific theory is held to be valid until evidence to the contrary emerges.

Light can behave both as a particle and a wave - is the discovery of the recent times that has debunked the idea of matter being something concrete and tangible.

Niels Bohr said, "Anyone who is not shocked by Quantum Theory has not understood it." Foundations of science are shaken by the newest of experiments.

Science can definitely bring us all understanding and the "know-how" of how certain things work or should be made to work. It very rarely answers the "know-why" or "know-what" -> whether something needs to be done in the first place.

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