People who are religious in the end have faith because they are selfish. They will perpetuate a religious belief that overall creates a worse world for everyone living (wars, enforced ideology, etc) in the hopes that they can have an afterlife of bliss and excess.

Playing devil's advocate: science hasn't cracked any of those yet either.

...with a bit of technology just for spice.

May the Reverend Magnus Pike be forever remembered.

Solving those problems is not part of science's purview.

It has helped to improve on those issues though.

It absolutely is. They're sociology problems. Observations can be made on causal factors in society, changes made, effects observed, results shared.

Have a read of the book "The Science Of Racism" for how science can give a insight into dealing with a social issue.

What if there's a good? No, no chance of that, I'm afraid.

True, and the scientific method and results have made wars more intensely deadly; but science doesn't make ridiculous claims like religions and other scam-artists who claims that if you say some magic words you can have absolutely anything you want. The scientific method is by far the best way we've found that lets us figure out what is real and what is nonsense - no other method comes anywhere close to it.

Religion: "thanks to our prayers we made it possible for science to create a prosthetic limb"

I guess the monkey palm only applied to current end of torture, rape, murder, and war and not future instances, but I could imagine Iraq war still being ongoing, or if it happened at the beginning of the Russian war that's clearly ongoing

There's some evidence that mammals never lost the ability. Unfortunately, our scarring response is massively faster and locks wounds down.

A few years back, they engineered mice to lack a gene, to find out what it did. Initially, someone got in trouble for not properly marking the modified mice (via holes in their ears). They later discovered the holes healed completely, including regenerating fur etc.

Unfortunately, it also makes recovery from larger wounds difficult, since without a scarring response they don't close quickly.

Yes, I've read some old books that talk about the "current of injury" and how you can induce something like regeneration in humans if you leave the scab alone, but only for small things like fingertips.

I suspect, as you say, that you trade one thing off for another, but we're all office workers these days so we can probably figure out something even for large wounds, since we can just sit around for weeks and heal.

I hope that when this AI craze dies down that we can redirect our humongous computing resources to simulating entire cells, maybe entire organs.

Deep down I'm a life extension nutter but reality had a way to knock that out of me...

There's a reason why "virtue signalling" was a term originally coined to describe faith behaviors.

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religion is only allowed to exist if it benefits capitalism. at least the organized toxic ones

Well, I'm sure scientists have never overlooked the impact of social conditions before as they are obviously irrelevant to how the natural world works.

It figures a religious nut would think it's called a "car engine" light and not a "check engine" light.

Pretty sure it's just dumped in hazardous waste

I mean holes in ears healing and closing up is one thing, entire limbs regrowing is another, and we already know from salamanders and lizards that things can go wrong:

Who's to say a regrown human arm won't have similar issues, possibly even internal issues only humans would notice due to having opposable fingers.

And even with prosthetic limbs, access might be limited based on profitability.

Let's also not ignore the fact that many modern prosthetics just kind of suck in general. They're getting better but they still aren't great.

not sure how that field is going, but I'm still upset that a company managed to make working prosthetic eyes, gave blind people some sigh, went out of business, and suddenly all their clients went blind again. They wouldn't make the code upen source because it was their intellectual property.

they didn't get into the "bring sigh to the blind" business to help people, just for the business part.

Yeah that's really shitty, just another shitty aspect of capitalism protecting businesses and not people. Actually actively screwing people over for money.

Lucky for me all the religious people I know are into science and only trust science and technology to make a change in anything in life but in about creation and unforseen things deep in their heads they just want to believe..