[AnotherUnixGeek]

The uncaring, inhumanity of science must be tempered with the soul of religion

Science is certainly not inhuman - indeed, we know of no one but humans capable of doing science. And it makes no more sense to apply terms like "caring" or "uncaring" to science than it does to apply them to arithmetic. Scientists can be ethical and caring, or not. If religion supplies them with a sense of ethics and responsibility, fine. If they can obtain their ethics and responsibility through some other means, fine. Arguing that science requires religion is nonsense.

[ThanhPhero]

There is no morality outside of religion because there is no reason for any code of morality binding more than one person and if it only binds one person then it binds no one. It is not morality. It is self-interest only. For morality to be a norm for a population it must be perceived as emanating from a source outside and above that population. If it is the morality of omnipotent government then it is not morality because it is infinitely mutable and therefore essentially random. The great inhumanities that are perpetrated in he name of Religion are aberrations even when repeated over and over because at some point the moral norm is resurrected and the aberrations are recognized as just that, aberrations and IMmoral.