Maybe there are people who practice science as a religion.... (rather than pretending to like Tom Cruise) if there are any it can't be too much worse than any other religion.

Science is great but it is not religion.

Why aren't all scientists,atheists or agnostics?Because, science alone is as apt to give you a cure for cancer as is is to produce Nazi doctor Josef Mengele and Zyclon B gas for concentration camp victims.

Another great subject to learn from. I wonder if Hell is beneath the earth. I'm going to start digging the earth's crust and check out the mantle and then the core of our planet. Hell might be right @ the earth's core. If I discover hell, I'll be the #1 scientist in this country and then I'll keep science as a religion for our American schools.

Basically, God isn't a science. You don't need a degree to understand him. Science can't save you, can't give you eternal life, can't get you to heaven, can't perform miracles. You see all those stories in the hospital that doctors save a person's life due to New advances in science and technology. Well, who do you tihnk gave them the brains to discover those new advances? It wasn't Santa Claus guys!

Not a religion in the grandest sense, but I have to admit to a satisfying chuckle as I see it atop this list. Its practitioners toiling away in relative obscurity, steadfastly tracking down bits and pieces of dribs and drabs from hither and yon, quietly attempting to better a tenuous existence on one rock gyrating through an infinite expanse. The majority of this planet's inhabitants are quick to scoff at man's achievements, but have proven to be even quicker at embracing those self-same achievements for their expeditious pragmatism (I hope the irony of this statement hasn't been misplaced). Whether they realize it or not, everyone worships at this altar at some point in their lives. Science is the Rodney Dangerfield of religions: it hits the stage night after night and brings down the house, but it don't get no respect. Its main problem to date is its PR agents: by nature, it's arduously slow, so it's tough to sell to an impatient (and therefore panicky) populace. Genuinely breathtaking when measured on the scale of reality, but putting it on a t-shirt won't make the masses swoon. At the end of the day, science is the little engine that might.

Technically not what we think of as a religion - but for some it definately seems to pass. For me, it would take more faith to believe in the ability of man and his tiny little brain than it would to believe that there is something bigger. Science is a wonderful thing if taken in the proper context. But it isn't going to save the world - and there are even aspects of it that could very well contribute to its destruction.

it's not a religion, and why are they being put in this list?

Religion: concern over what exists beyond the visible world, differentiated from philosophy in that it operates through faith or intuition rather than reason, and generally including the existence of a transcendent spiritual entity that has created the world, that governs it, that controls the destinies or that intervenes occasionally in the natural course of its history, as well as the idea that ritual, prayer, spiritual exercises, certain principles of everyday conduct, etc., are expedient, due, or spiritually rewarding, or arise naturally out of an inner need as a human response to the belief in such a being, principle, etc.* Science does not qualify as a religion. It doesnt even qualify as a belief system. Science is a methodology, a system of testing how and why the natural world works around us. Faith should not have anything to do with science. There are no gods of science, no prayers, nor shrines. Because science is about testing with variables, some of which we may not know about at every given circumstance, science is not infallible; those who claim it to be, those who believe that science is a static, never-changing set of laws dont understand what science is. As we learn more, scientific thought is revised. Listing a standard method of testing hypotheses as a religion is just absurd. (*above definition from Websters Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language)

Science does not extract money from people with great sounding fairy tales. We do not kill others over science.

Science can't explain everything.

Not really a religion, but it can be proven.