... is to say purely in terms of matter and chemical reactions.This poses a fundamental challenge to religion, whose basic goal is to reveal the deeper meaning of life.Science has shown that the universe has no hidden secrets that we are unable to comprehend.It is not an all powerful God who moves these things according to His will.There is no God, and therefore no underlying deeper meaning or purpose to life.Everything is merely matter described by mathematics.As far as humanity is concerned, life is meaningless. Furthermore, the evidences and discoveries of science pose a direct challenge to morality.They do this in several ways.If religion does not contain the truth, and there is no God, then there is no basis for humanities moral principles.Fundamentally, morality had been based on the belief that there was an all powerful God who required a certain standard of living and would punish or reward us in ...

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