We discussed “Religion and Science” - their Interaction, from a paper by by Ian Barbour at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-science/ or (Summary and Chapter 1) at https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/chapter-1-ways-of-relating-science-and-religion/  and  podcasts by Fiona Ellis on  ‘Expanded Naturalism’ at https://art19.com/shows/philosophy-for-our-times.  andby Robin Dunbar on how religion evolved and why it endures at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yaVrOT-x38   or maybe  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfAXx6CELPg.    A starting point was Ian Barbour's discussion of the language of science and of religion. They are different. Science is about how things work and religion is about how to live your life.   We agreed religion originated with small communities and served to hold them together and structure mutual support.  We examined the concept of “God” - just one or a pantheon?  Innate in nature and the cosmos? A source of absolute right and wrong?  Using an analogy with music, can science explain reverence, ecstasy, the impact of the sublime?  Do we need religion in the age of the welfare state?  “We used to have communities, now we just have money’” Or is our God Mammon?