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We should stop making Science a religion. Science is a powerful tool for generating and validating models of how things work. But it often works slowly and is
by molbioguy 5y ago
We should stop making Science a religion. Science is a powerful tool for generating and validating models of how things work. But it often works slowly and is certainly fallible (at least in the short run). Science as a methodology and persuit should be praised and supported, but shouldn't be followed blindly based on the views of a subset of scientists. Scientists often disagree about the details of models -- more than people outside the field would believe.
- agumonkey 5y agoProblem today is that rapid access to text made people think they could integrate and digest the whole thing.
- drewcoo 5y ago> rapid access to text made people think they could integrate and digest the whole thing Are you talking about the Internet or the bible?
- agumonkey 5y agomaybe both. Actually I'm talking about post web 2 era. I've seen increasing amount of people very "knowledgeable" about the "scientific method" but who never made derived one proof in their life or never made up a concept from zero. It's very painful to see sheeps throwing wikipedia paragraphs pavlov style. Talking about the bible, there was a talk about the printing press and the fact that it made debates a bit saner since people could avoid hearsay. The Bible might not be the most refutable piece but it seems it gave some kind of stable ground for discourse.. (according to the people at that conference)
- rvense 5y ago> We should stop making Science a religion. Unfortunately, we appear to be quite fundamentally, in the vaguest sense of the word, religious beings...
- molbioguy 5y agoI agree, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. But skepticism isn't usually a big tenet of religions. Science depends on healthy skepticism to move forward and not get stuck in an incorrect model.