Some on the things that Woodward brought up needed to be said at this conference. Most of the speakers said that religion is the reason for bad things happening in the world today and because of that we need to get rid of religion. There is no empirical evidence to support this. It is true that some religious people have committed unspeakable acts. However these acts are not condoned by the religions that these people follow.
Then to say that because there are some bad people that have a religion that we should get rid of religion all together and look to science for all of our needs is ridiculous. First, as stated above, religion is not the root of the bad things that are happening in the world. These problems most often come out of political differences and do not have to do with religion. Removing religion will not remove the political differences in the world. Second, would science fix these problems? No it would not. As I just said the problems are not in the beliefs they are in the political views. Science is not a political view and will not have an effect on the way society behaves.
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