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The real comfort that faith can bring is one of the biggest neutralizers to science education I have seen. The willingness of someone's ability to take their d
by maeon3 16y ago
The real comfort that faith can bring is one of the biggest neutralizers to science education I have seen. The willingness of someone's ability to take their deep-seated need to belong to a group is the first step to embracing science and truth. It's not easy to follow the premises to logical conclusions. Sometimes they go places we don't want to go. To be a scientist you have to want to boldly go to chart the uncharted.
- bbgm 16y agoTo be a scientist, you need to be deeply curious about the how and the why. That often requires going into the uncharted, but most of the time requires fixing the charts you have today (which is a whole lot of fun but also a little less glamorous)
- maeon3 16y agoScience says that humans have no special value over any other substance in the universe. Until science can proudly declare that humans are of infinite worth, and monkeys, chicken and my cow-burgers are less than that, people will embrace creationism over evolution and faith over science. People think that science causes morality to fly out the window, if I have a gun, stealing the food in your house is a scientifically valid way of acquiring food. Eating a burger is similar to this. Faith is used to reconcile the problems of why we don't eat other humans when we are hungry, yet we eat chicken and cows when we are.