Is God Dead?

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of God is dead or dying within modern society by analyzing and attempting to explain the shift in outlook and attitude towards religion.

One of the main reasons for an increase in secularism world wide is due to scientific discovery and its tendency not to include God in its conclusions. From the Middle Ages and on, there were few people who would not accept a supernatural being as the definitive answer for existence. The Copernican Revolution, one of the greatest milestones in the history of science, sparked the concept of an enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world. This revolution brought about important changes in the way scientific investigations were conducted. It began with by Nicolaus Copernicus' 1543 book, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, in which he stated that the Earth was not the center of the universe and that it actually rotates around the sun, like many other planets. This ...

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has revealed the way the universe works through sound scientific fact. The conclusions found all around the world are entirely devoid of the need for a supreme being to explain the natural world. Pioneers of modern science like Darwin, Copernicus and Newton lay the ground work for the scientific understanding we claim today. "They assiduously explained much of nature that previously seemed like godly mysteries." As science becomes more popular, so do its implications that the world can not be explained by God.

A very important reason for the increase in secularism world wide is due to the gradual changing of social norms within society throughout history. In a time before ...

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