My only problem with science is not that we believe in it, but that we only believe in it because it is scientifically proven.

My favorite show on television right now is Stargate. Battlestar Galactica has been on hiatus for some time now and Firefly was canceled. I love science fiction, so many advancements have been made in reality, and many of these advances were modeled after what we hoped for and dreamed for after watching a good sci fi flick. But this medium does not stop with technology and architecture, science fiction also seeks out the advancement of the human itself. With Star Trek we examined what it meant to be human, and more so than that, we examined the nature of a soul. Stargate and many other science fiction shows carry on this thought to this day. We try to find out what a soul is. We try to find out what god is. And we try to fit what we are into what we learn about the universe. Is there a God? If not, Is there a reason we think there is a God? More and more studies come out everyday that link thought processes with physiological responses. Meditation can change brain waves, faith can make you live longer, hope can cure illness. The list can go on and on.
There is science, that we have scientifically proven (yes there is a joke in there), and with science we have discovered a vast universe, a whole spectrum of invisible realities, we have theorized about the possibility of many infinite dimensions, and we know that everything is just different combinations of energy. So who is to say that, like sci fi suggests, we cannot evolve to a point of pure energy. And if we can, then what is the difference between science and religion. Understanding science does not change the fact that we are evolving toward something, some state of being, and the more we learn about the universe, the more I think that science will one day prove to be the math, so to speak, that will give us all that we hope for in religion.

Isaac Asimov once said: "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinded critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."