^ Science is all that has been proven true and will be proven true... The study of all knowledge is the study of all power in a round-about way.
Religion just puts will into the equation because of wishful thinking instead of objective proof.
Science will say that it is not a religion because science does not choose what it believes in. It only knows what it knows because of testing and conclutions draw on those facts. Science is only a reflection of the universe, it does not choose what to believe. It only knows because belief is not necessarry- there is proof.
I feel that both sides have something to offer the other that is real and tangeable. It's just die-hards will not take the plunge that is necessarry to see the other side, and that much is kinda sad.
To me there is a Creator, and science is a representation of His raw ability as well as potential. To me, science is God- because science is all-knowledge, therefore all-power, and therefore God Almighty.
Will may or may not exist at that level. But I do know that at the core of it all, is an energy field of unlimited possiblities and contains all power in the system. And that my friends, sounds very much like God to me.
Will-based or not, it's got all-power.