THE RELATION OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION
"The Relation of Science and Religion" is a transcript of a talk given by Dr. Feynman at the Caltech YMCA Lunch Forum on May 2, 1956. (http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/49/2/Religion.htm.)
It is a very good discussion worth reading by people of whole range of beliefs from one hundred percent theistic to one hundred percent atheistic. It is only about six pages. I strongly recommend it. In the lecture itself he has stated the following:
"And as you develop more information in the sciences, it is not that you are finding out the truth, but that you are finding out that this or that is more or less likely. The statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known to different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true. -- Once the question has been removed from the absolute, and gets to sliding on the scale of uncertainty, it may end up in very different positions."
Dr. Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman).
In the lecture cited above, he clearly explained the role of science. He also stated that
"And it is necessary that religion give strength and comfort and the inspiration to follow these moral views. This is the inspirational aspect of religion."
Here the problem is that different people find different religions from different sources. All religions are blasphemous misleading their followers. They cannot exist without some semblance of god.
We humans as individuals need hope, courage and patience to face the realities of life. Like a trillium leaf, our individual faith holds them together. The faith can come from one's conviction about the validity of the ideology of his or her choice. That ideology may be inherited or received with propaganda of organizations working to influence the public opinion.
My faith in Divine Entity (D.E.) is based on Newton's first Law of Motion:
Law 1. An object remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion at constant speed and in a straight line unless acted on by an unbalanced force.
Forces causing motion are not self-acting; they are to be exerted. Order out of chaos is lot less likely than chaos out of order. Players of billiard and carrom experience the need to aim the cue ball or the striker in such a way that it hits the targeted piece at the proper spot to push it in the intended direction and then to hit it with just the needed amount of force.
There must have been some entity that had the will and the power to exert the forces needed to bring current order out of initial chaos. That D.E. did and can exist without any religion and may be omnipresent like space, and omnipotent but not necessarily interested in the well-being of individuals or chosen groups. Would it have disappeared itself once the order was established or gone AWOL? Not quite likely.
Theism without religions is much more scientific, rational and logical than atheism is purported to be.
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