[Harry!]

But I know that this has always been a interesting revelation into revealing how the universe was created etc but I don't understand how this would improve things such as new technologies. Maybe this could improve broadband speed etc but it might not have as many practicalities at it seems.

Science normally answers the "How" questions whilst Religion normally answers the "what" questions. Another question such as "What is the meaning of life?" is more difficult scientifically.

/small rant

[Photon]

Originally Posted by Harry!

Religion normally answers the "what" questions.
/small rant

Religion provides no real answers. It provides a series of claims based on conjecture and demands that that people accept them as truth on the basis of faith, rather than evidence. Science has provided religion hundreds of years of embarrassment, and religious figures have made absurd claims that religion is there for all the questions that science "can't answer." Even when science has answered questions, religions tend to desperately reject those findings. The meaning of life? Well based on the nature of all other animal/plant behavior, the meaning of life is as basic as survival and propagation of ones genes, but humans have far more complex minds and seek greater meaning than that.

Religion is a pre-scientific phenomenon that sought to explain existence and natural occurrences by attributing supernatural causes.