Can you foresee a time when knowledge and technology will overcome a need for religion.?

God I hope so. LOL

My favorite answer is the one about the "god shaped hole inside of everyone". LOL

I wonder what shape that hole is? And when will science discover it? LOL

On the contrary, I believe that spirituality will overcome the need for technology.

Spirituality has been around a lot longer than technology and managed to survived just fine.

I believe technology is a hindrance to spirituality. I also believe that the "education" they teach in schools is mostly a waste of time. It's useless information that has no purpose, especially history. I enjoy it now because I have a choice of learning about it, but it hasn't help me in the least in my life.

Religion will definitely win out over all, because it is a need to this world and to our country. What you are saying can be argued equally in both directions. I would ask "If with all of today's technology and ability's we still can not prove evolution as our creation, there must be a God". What I mean is that for every argument, there is an equally good rebuttal. Religion will not be what wins out because there are so many that have been too altered by man, but Jesus Christ will win out. That is my belief.

I don't think religion will ever go away, because people have a need for spirituality that gives them hope. Religion doesn't just mean Christian, and can be any number of things. I hope that one day people will actually take religion as what it is supposed to be and education and spirituality can be in tandem, but even so, people have a need for both.

Also, you are assuming that people who believe the bible are ignorant, but there are just as many hole's in the Genesis story as there are in evolution theories. They have christian scientists who have their own "proven facts" that support their beliefs too. Humans don't really know where we came from, though we may be getting closer, the fact is that the evidence is still sketchy at best for either side.

I'm not sure what technology has to do with anything.

The first hurdle that evolution needs to make is something better than spontaneous generation of life. Just think about that for a minute. Do you really understand what that is suggesting? Actually it is suggesting the very same thing for the universe. For a universe to immediately come into existence out of pinpoint smaller than a sub atomic partical is right up there with God creating the universe ex nihilo.

Your scenario won't ever play out as the ultimate questions like:

Why are we here? What is our purpose? Etc.

These fundamental questions can not be answered by technology or knowledge. On the other hand they are in my view more philosophical questions than not and if folks would stop buying into religious rhetoric there could be a time when philosophy will reign over religion...But that time is not in the near future.

It should have already. People just warp their religious beliefs around the more overwhelming evidence...like that the world is spherical and not the center of the universe. Or that gravity and natural disasters have more of a say in life and death rather than what god is or is not worshiped. So far it's managed to EVOLVE to continue it's survival. There is STILL a Catholic church despite the reality of evolution, there are still 'faith based' churches despite the reliance on medical Dr's so apparently denial will keep it's hold as long as there are people!

of course not! don't be ridiculous! do people really think like you?! that's just plain wrong, hoping Christianity would go away. yes, you can put it under the guise of 'religion' but when you a reference a 2000-year-old book, what you are really doing is talking about the God who created you and His holy words in the Bible. i can guarantee you that God and Christians will outlast you and your kind. God will put an end to YOU and those like you who choose to follow the world, rather than Him. the good news is, there's still time for you to turn around.

next, you need to do some research on intelligent design. there is scientific evidence for ID that refutes the convoluted 'theory' that you've swallowed hook, line and sinker. recent studies in DNA have proven evolution false and intelligent design a near certainty. you can start with apologetics.org.

can you sit there and honestly tell me you believe your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (it won't let me put 2000 greats in there like i wanted) grandfather was an ape? c'mon and use the sense God gave you.

why do people accept evolution as fact? are you really THAT daft? show me this proof you are so proud of. oh, you cannot prove you are related to an ape? i know you can't and you know it too, so quit pretending it's a fact; there are gullible people out there (much like yourself) who you are damaging with your falsehoods.

I'm educated. I have no difficulty at all in dismissing a faith-held notion that an organism can develop characteristics that none of its ancestors have ever had.

Only through the forgiveness of Christ can salvation be attained. How could this ever be changed by science? Are we going to develop a weapon more powerful than God, that we could force Him to let us into Heaven?

Religion is not a crutch. It is a stretcher. There is no hope for any of us without it.

I don't think they're mutually exclusive. You have denominations like mine that don't as a whole take the Bible literally. Also, I don't know if it is a trend toward giving up religion or if the nonbelievers feel more comfortable stating their non-belief. I know there have always been atheists. Socrates was one. It goes to reason that throughout history there have been atheists, but until recently it wasn't safe for them to make that known. So, I think we'll need to wait about another 20 years to know for certain.

I do, actually. Perhaps it's wishful thinking, but it's a beautiful image to imagine the entire human species finally coming together and working toward a common goal for the first time in our species history. I think Carl Sagan himself shared this dream, a shame he never lived long enough to see most of it come to be.