Quote from Shrewd Dude:
science rules, religion sucks. GET WITH THE PROGRAM, MAN.
At the source of everything, the two might be intimately linked. Most religions rely on faith while science relies on observation, hypothesis testing, confirmation and the ability to be repeated over and over.
If I drop a hammer, I know it will fall down due to gravity and from the knowledge I have acquired since childhood. If I had never taken a science course, I would still understand that gravity exists intuitively (through observation).
However, no science can prove that physical laws are grounded in something eternal. We'll wake up tomorrow and assume that we could fall out of bed it we roll over too much, but what law of physics states that physics itself cannot alter its own laws? How do we know that 1,000 years from now, the gravitational constant of the universe will be the same? How do we know if the speed of light will be a little slower or a little faster eons from now?
If everything that is observable through our senses is the universe around us, and if the universe is nothing but a set of binary YES/NO conditions at the very smallest quantum level, then perhaps there is something beyond the universe (we'll call it X) that allows the universe to contain physical laws.
Electrons and protons have physical characteristics. There is no such thing as different electrons -- it is an absolute. Whatever causes these fundamental particles to have their characteristics may be stored in a location outside the observable universe. If the universe is the software program, X is the hardware that it is running on. X could be in a domain equivalent to "god" or some metaphysical explanation for the world we live in.
You cannot knock religion simply because it is placed in faith. Everything we do is rooted in faith. There is no guarantee that some physical constant won't change a few seconds from now -- and if there is, that begs the question of what keeps all physical laws and physical components stable?
