Does Religion have a place in the 21st century?

Last night, Professor Richard Dawkins participated in a Cambridge Debate, in front of hundreds of people, with the former Archbishop of Canterbury. His statement: religion is redundant and irrelevant, and has no place in the 21st century.

Dawkins argued that religion was a hindrance to scientific advancement by creating false explanations for natural phenomena. "It's a phony substitute for an explanation, which seems to answer the question until you examine it and realise that it does no such thing." he says.

In the end, religion came out as the winner, the house saying that they believed that religion did have a place in the 21st century. However, the question of wheter or not religion does still have a place remains. Will a non-religious, fully scientifically-based society help the world?

Sources:

The Independent