The Death of Religion?
In every single case where scripture has offered up some explanation about the real World that we live in and science also has something to say about the same issue, The Church has lost and science has provided us with a better, more suitable explanation. In the realm of nature, in the realm of explaining why and how things happen, in the present, past, or future, religion has lost when science addresses the same issue.. Science is simply much more reliable than religion at explaining our World, and the entire cosmos for that matter.
Some few and especially vocal people prefer to live in a fantasy World where they they blithely ignore the facts, believing that the bible is a reliable guide on issues of geology and archeology, but most people who choose to hold onto religious teachings choose one popular escape clause, which is to say that religion addresses those things which science cannot, matters of the spirit. That religion is some special domain that addresses ultimate questions which science cannot.
To me this makes religion more like pop psychology than a bastion of faith and belief. To wit, there is some vast omnipotent designer who created the World the way it is, but who has removed all traces of having done so. Now we have a religion that is compatible with science because it was designed to be, but it is one so metaphysical that it no longer touches the ground, it no longer delves into or provides meaning. If religion cannot get its hands dirty and address issues in my life, then what good does it do me?
Does it make sense to say, “I believe in God, I just don’t believe in religion?”