I'm a bit late joining in here so I'll cover a few points.

Religion is not required to teach guidelines for how to be a good person. I believe it was used for a control for the masses and still is. ALL religion is bad. Just be a good person and form your own beliefs based on experience... not fear! Buddhism is pretty cool though!

Mr.S, I completely agree, I decided when I was about 5 years old

that the reason for existence was to learn and to 'have fun'. I still hold that as my reason for existence.

I think the reason science is thought of as having domination over the natural world is because many people forget what science is - the study of the natural world and the 'space' we exist in. It is not something to believe in, it is the study of what is.

I don't think science goes against life after death. It just doesn't know. Luckily, I think I do! I have a memory of a past life. As do both of my parents. They have a few, but I only have one. There was a period when I was young that both my parents regularly meditated and I joined in. It bought back a 'past memory' of a pretty traumatic death being crushed by a car I was working under. Quite an old one with a cranking handle! My Dad has a past memory of wrestling a wild bore to prove his manhood at about 14! You can think it was a dream or made up or something but I assure you it is quite a different experiance. It is simply a memory. I also just 'feel' it is right that we live life to life, learning and experiencing.

Something that has always interested me is asking where someone says 'they' are. What part of them is 'them'. Do they point to their head? Not often! I have often wondered why I always feel 'I' am around where my chest is.

To finish I think everyone who has joined in this thread should watch the film/documentary 'What the bleep do we know!?'

They present the part about water molecules as fact but AFAIK they have not actually been replicated outside of Dr. Masaru Emato's experiments. Apart from that I think its all good stuff!