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One of the topics discussed in class that kept me contradicting myself was the question of whether one could consider science as a kind of religion or if science and religion are totally different. When I first heard the question, I almost laughed because I thought it was ridiculous to even consider science a religion because I thought they were too different. However, after thinking more about the question and expanding more in the discussion, I felt like it could be a possible to say that science may be considered a type of religion. I feel like one of the main functions of most religions is to provide people with an answer for their being, their existence. The answer science gives us is evolution. Another function of religion is to provide guidance on how one should journey though life. Science does not necessarily provide set morals one has to follow, but I feel that it does suggest a life of curiosity, observation, and testing. I think one big difference with science and religion, however, is that religion provides a story for life after death. I feel like science does have some aspects of religion, it just provides more evidence for its stories. At the same time, how can we actually know the stories of other religions never happened either?