Will religion necessarily begin to sprout from
it?


Once we get to the edge of reason, where
we've exhausted all possibility of deductive,
inductive and abductive reasoning, is religion a
necessary societal consequence?


Considering the fact that science can never
demonstrate anything at all towards the
transcendent religious claims, and it also
cannot demonstrate anything at all against
them, we would only have one manner left
toward analyzing the world, and that would be
through reason.


But then reason has limits, too. Within each
system of reason, there is only so much that
can be demonstrated due to constraints of the
Universe of Discourse.


Eventually, if we truly wanted to apply our
thoughts of reality to an 'Ockham's Razor' sort
of principle, we would have to take note of the
fact that reason will not be able to address
everything, just as science cannot.


Science can only go as far as the physical
world (outside of that, experiments are not
possible).


Reason can go slightly beyond science, in that
we can still reason about metaphysics, but
even that is still bounded.


Is what follows going to eventually be a form
of religion; a faith-based conjecture on what
the 'end-all' state of affairs of existence would
be like?


Edit : This is meant to be a question to bring
about discussion of the future of academics,
but of course, due to the fact that I'm speaking
of religion and science together, and it can be
considered a controversial topic, I wouldn't
consider any disagreement with the above
statements to be 'off-topic'. Don't feel as
though it would be off topic to dispute, or that
you cannot argue against any of the claims that
I made above. This is in the discussion sub-
forum for a reason, after all.