🚀 go-pugleaf

>      By the way, in no way should you consider yourself alone.  The 
>      appropriation of 'science' as a new religion has a long past, and
>      there are currently many who would agree with you.

>                               dale bass

Historical examples of "Science" as Religion.

The Temple of Reason in the French Revolution.

Comte's 19nth Century religion of science with its prieshood of
sociologists.

I've seen Theosophy described as a 19nth century contatenation of
science and religion.

The current generation of Physics and Zen types(Fritz Capoff look out).

The Religions of Evolution-George Bernard Shaw a believer possibly?

Did any of these survive very long, except for Theosophy and Christian
Science (Mary Baker Eddy)?  

I think alot of science fiction has as its unspoken foundation the 
notion that the survival and spread of the descendants of earth 
outside the earth is a religeous goal (seems pretty stupid to me)
which is a sort of religion of evolution.

I wonder if 200 years from now any of these new religions of science
will seem as worthwhile in retrospect as even the worst ancient
philosphical stoics or epicurians?