Richard Dawkins Is Science A Religion?

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The essay that I read was Richard Dawkins’ “Is Science a Religion?” where he argues science is closer to the truth than religion could ever be. He says that science cannot be a religion but religion can be science. The reason that Dawkins says that religion can be science is it a method how people to try to understand the world, however, he does point out that he considers religion a horrible science. He says that religion and faith is not good because unlike science it does not use sound facts. In fact he goes as far to say that science is one of the most pure doctrine since it can only tell the truth and nothing else. Dawkins also points out that society needs to be care and not mental abuse children by only feeding them religion and not

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