Science has been lethal to religion, as
Nietzsche and others have pointed out. Religion has been thought of
as incompatible with science. According to Quentin Taylor, early Nietzsche
thought that there could be a rebirth of religion or myth once
science had been pursued to its limits, when reason and science were
seen as inadequate. Nietzsche thought the collapse of science as a
guide to truth could be the
guide to truth. He thought a new “tragic insight” could be the
new guide, with art-myth as the only remedy or solace to the tragedy
of man in the cosmos.
Even
science has metaphysical faith and illusions, denying God but often
believing it can find and know Being with thought, using causality.
Religion has tried to answer much larger questions than science, such
as the meaning of existence, beauty, love, suffering, and using faith
largely to answer these questions. The science of sociobiology has
said that the answer to why we are here needs to be much reduced: we
are here for survival and reproductive success.
Which “illusion,”
as Nietzsche calls them, is closer to the truth: science believing it
can find reality and Being in empirical causality, or the
metaphysical God of religion? Both require faith.
The
Godhood attained in material and supermaterial evolution is closer to
the truth, and this Godhood includes elements of both religion and
science, applying both empirical causality and faith. The theological materialism of the Evolutionary Christian Church revives
religion and myth as well as science. We are certainly here for
survival and reproductive success, but theological materialism also sees the sacred goal of evolving to
supermaterial Godhood in the cosmos, the Godhood first mirrored in the Father-Within of traditional religion.
This
is an inherently optimistic worldview and religion, with elements of
tragedy, since the goal is distant and mythical and will require many
heroes to reach.
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