A Temple to Science, the Atheon

[ricmat]

It has been suggested by many (including myself) on different threads that Science has become the new God for many.

Here is yet more proof. From this web site.

The Atheon is a secular temple devoted to scientific worship. Delivering spiritual fulfillment through exposure to the latest research in fields ranging from cosmology to quantum mechanics, the Atheon offers a nondenominational alternative to theocentric religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Our credo is to make faith rational.

If you click on ENTER, you can set your monitor to view the background cosmic radiation, and listen through headphones to the “canon.” It sounds something like surf on a beach…

Ironically, it says about itself that it is a place of discovery for Jews (?)

And a blogger at “The New Scientist” says about it:

“Praise be to Darwin! We are gathered here today to give thanks to those scientists who have given us something to sustain our spirits in this time of religious vacuity. Not that we believe there is such a thing as a spirit, or a soul, but you know what I mean.”

 

[bpbasilphx]

I get the distinct impression that this site is supposed to be satire.

For more of the same, go here:

theonion.com/content/news/evolutionists_flock_to_darwin

 

[ricmat]

I get the distinct impression that this site is supposed to be satire.

For more of the same, go here:

theonion.com/content/news/evolutionists_flock_to_darwin

I’m familiar with the Onion, thank you.

But the Atheon is apparently NOT supposed to be a satire according to its creator. From Wired magazine:

**Wired.com: **Do you actually take the worship of the science seriously, or is it a parody?
**Keats: **I hope not. If it’s interpreted as one, I will have failed. It’s not a parody any more than a thought experiment is a parody.

And more from this same article (my bold & underline):

Wired.com: How did the Atheon begin?
**
Jonathon Keats:** I attended the Beyond Belief conference in 2006. Richard Dawkins was there, and Steven Weinberg, and Neil Degrasse Tyson. They were trying to figure out what science might do to provide an alternative to religion. There wasn’t a consensus, but there was momentum towards the idea that science could do everything religion could, that it could be everything religion had been.