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Let's say we reset everything today, wipe out everyone's memory. God will be forgotten, science will still exist. People will figure out science sooner or later.
If I'm being honest, I think people will figure out god too. All it is is a question.
"Did someone do all this?"
It's a reasonable question. Easy to ask, hard to answer. Attempt to identify this variable "someone", and people will eventually land on some kind of god.
Yes, but the point is that every time god is "rediscovered", the form of that god changes as does the scripture surrounding that new religion.
Science, for the most part, wouldn't diverge from our current understanding of it, because it is ultimately our understanding of the world and its fuctions.
Different form, same essential content.
Science laws won't cease to exist, but if you wipe out everyone's memory, their knowledge of that science will cease to exist - so they'll have to figure it out from zero - and there's no guarantee that there won't be another placeholder in a sense (i.e. what religions have been historically) for what's yet to understand.
Edit: maybe it's more accurate to say science laws would cease to exist, but won't cease to work; they would cease to exist in a formulated way (in that hypothetical memory loss) since they were put together by humans.
I think the intent is more “Scientific discoveries could be rediscovered, your One True Religion wouldn’t be.”
Yeah, in this sense I agree. I'm overanalyzing again.
God will always exist before science, it is necessary to rationalize existence to have any hope of living long enough to develop science.
If there's no meaning to what you're doing, there's no point in dealing with suffering. Only through extreme alienation from suffering can you start to have a non divine world view.