Of Course Science Doesn't Know Everything....

....Or else it would stop. - Dara O'Briain.

I love the never ending religion debate. Is God real? There is no proof so he can't be real. God is the opium of the people etc etc.

People are always knocking religion down because it has no evidence, no proof and it never does anything to help itself when it comes to these classic arguments. But I don't think we have religion to prove anything, I think it's a comfort. I think people have the wrong idea of religion. The idea of dying and not really knowing what lies beyond the great divide can be a daunting thought for some.
And it's something science can't answer for us.

2000 years ago, what did people have to explain what created them? Nothing. So they make up stories, so while this may prove that religion is a giant fraudulent story book, it also shows that religion isn't there as a concrete theory. Whenever a scientific theory is proven wrong, people move on and accept the new proven theory. Religion has issues with this because of all the people is has control over.

But in its humblest form its merely a medium to fill in the gaps.
I remember one of my ethics teachers brought in a magazine once where one person had written an article on how some scientists agreed that science doesn't have all the answer to everything and that religion is necessary to fill in all the gaps that science can't, and may not for many years.
I wish I had noted that down back in my AS's. Sadly, I didn't.
Life is full of regrets.

But I suppose my point is:
religion is a gap filler, its message is meant to be one of hope and comfort rather than the answers to the meaning of life. Even I find death scary.