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Does that one instance preclude all of the other people that contributed to science, who also had faith?
by omarchowdhury 15y ago
Does that one instance preclude all of the other people that contributed to science, who also had faith?
- bluedanieru 15y agoIt would help if their faith is what drove them to pursue scientific endeavors. And that is sometimes the case, in fact. But for every "understand the mind of god" faith-driven scientist there are at least one thousand screaming, irrational, dangerously unbalanced regressives who are one papal bull or fatwa or Dianetics away from ushering us into a brutal and stupid dark age. Like many human inventions religion can be a great thing, but it often isn't.
- omarchowdhury 15y agoIt would seem then the indoctrination of individuals is the issue here, not religion in itself. The current process of propagating religion through the oral teachings of priests and the dead letter of holy texts has given rise to fanaticism, pitting groups against one another.
- sskates 15y agoNot disagreeing/agreeing, but do you have any evidence to back up the claim "for every "understand the mind of god" faith-driven scientist there are at least one thousand screaming, irrational, dangerously unbalanced regressives"?
- bluedanieru 15y agoNo, sorry. This isn't Wikipedia.
- skeletonjelly 15y agoExactly. Just because I declare something doesn't mean I have to back it up with facts. I trust my gut. That's where the truth lies.
- bluedanieru 15y agoNot every turn of phrase entitles you to a link, you literal-minded buffoon.
- skeletonjelly 15y agoGreat! Hostility. A welcome addition to a discourse. What you said wasn't a turn of phrase. You stated it as a fact.
- malkia 15y agodeGrasse's observation was that when a scientist reaches a point where he can't explain, or understand something often he attributes it to God... And then years later someone else find it's explanation, until he stumbles onto the next problem. It's all good. I gues it's okay to put God where your knowledge limits you, or the current more wide one, but just don't spread it that it's because of God. e.g. God is "what we don't understand"
- dchest 15y agoHere's his lecture on this, "The Perimeter of Ignorance": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1HXuiIBF3I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1HXuiIBF3I
- malkia 15y agoThanks again! I somehow remember different setting, or just different link, or video cam, but it's the same lecture that I watched months ago.