History has demonstrated:
Religion is following orders by implicitly trusting someone or something.
Science asks questions.
Religion purports to answer questions.
Science seeks to disprove its own conclusions.
Religion seeks to reinforce its own dogma.
Science is error-correction toward adjusting for realities as they unfold.
Religion internalizes against reality by mocking up a substitute.
Science is the most recent development of the human mind. Technology proves science to be successful in advancing human progress.
Religion disdains human progress and waits for the end. Religion speaks incantations over real wounds.
Science gives us medicine, understanding of DNA and the human genome and a view to perfecting the human condition.
Religion puts down all things human as reprehensible, unworthy and corrupt.
Science must present a united front by peer review.
Religion is divided into warring camps within the same religion and denominations unable to agree and unwilling to bend.
Science gives us hospitals with MRI, X-ray, transplants, chemotherapy, innoculations, nutrition, therapy and a vast array of specilization.
Religion expects us to die and tells us we deserve it.
The Dark Ages is the time in which Christianity, Islam and Judaism had an opportunity to demonstrate for all time what the rule of theology would do for (or to) mankind. Witches were burned, scholars were skinned alive, thinkers were tortured, books were banned and empires were toppled over the mere idea of orthodoxy.
Science is the progeny of Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Einstein and other minds who dared to think.
Religion is the progeny of obsessive-compulsive dictators who stone children to death, dominate women into submission and declare original-thinking to be heresy deserving of death.
You can argue about God all you want but history has already demonstrated clearly which side brings benefits to mankind and which side keeps humanity chained in darkness.
The believer is not a voice. The believer is an echo.
Superstitions have had their day.
Richard E. Rubenstein's Aristotle's Children reads like a history book and a fast-paced thriller put together as it chronicles the battle of traditional religious doctrine with erupting modernism set against the stage of the High Middle Ages, and developing once Aristotle’s writings were openly accepted by many religious scholars upon learning that all of Aristotle’s surviving works had been translated into Arabic for study and debate. The author, an expert on religious history and conflict and a professor at George Mason University, takes us on a long but exciting journey as we watch this discovery, and rediscovery, of Aristotle’s philosophies regarding the way the world works, cause and effect, and the emphasis on reason over faith. As the religious scholars from the Muslim, Jewish and Christian worlds dared examine and embrace these concepts, and in the process challenge those of the Catholic Church, there was a new birth of ideas and possibilities that literally changed the face of Western religious tradition, eventually culminating in the great work of Thomas Aquinas, who based his arguments of God’s existence on Aristotle’s earlier concepts of an Unmoved Mover and First Cause.