They fear the lack of purpose that comes with not having a God or an ultimate principle to justify their life's meaning.

Dude, so many people believe in religion because they're scared of death being a black void

They love to hear the opposite.

Many do, but certainly not all.

Oh, right. #NotAll

you know what a purpose in life is that odesn't involve god?

I for a long time was not religious because I did not believe in an afterlife and thought to be religious I needed to.

keeping the world a nice, tidy place and creating a wonderful environment for the next generation of your species.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln8De-KH2aE

Watch my video right now.

**Do it.**

making a difference, even if it's small.

A shallow answer that will leave one seeking more wether provable or not.

to what, stuff that will inevitable cease to exist in less time then it takes a stellar body to blink? (light wavelength pun)

Depends on your view of what is the fate of the Universe after its entropic death.

any reason to contribute is the hope that there is something, something that gives those minor contributions meaning

Time is relative and bound to Space and the Universe, it does not exist beyond it.

something that doesn't just say it's all pointless and crumbling into the void anyway so why put it off

as far as we know

my brain is so wrinkly

hue hue

that you people are mental midgets

You're right, as far as we know at the moment. Lack of evidence has never stopped us from hypothesizing though.

And often a hypothesis can be a director towards evidence.

true

so i can't argue against it 😛

Cue all the people hypothesizing their dicks are huge.

I believe both religion and science to be sovereign spheres of thought. When it comes to the laws and nature of the Universe science holds sovereignty of religion.

Religion does not have the right to contradict what is scientifically provable.

I.E. evolution or the big bang

well, science and religion aren't really exclusive

Yes, but many on both sides would claim otherwise

why and how something works is irrespective of what started it

they are exclusive when it comes to facts, cuz one requires faith

you have to have faith in the scientific method of evidence

no you don't

the scientific method will define it for you

We defined the scientific method

faith that their god created the universe and the rules of science itself which then was used to define existance?

Science and Religion are not exclusive only due to the fact that old world religion was used as a tool to educate the masses about basic things that science of the time understood, but the masses were too stupid to take it as science, so it had to be imparted by the guise of religion.

Based on how we perceive the universe