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It makes me think of the Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode where Dennis hypocritically appeals to authority in an effort to disprove creationism. The val
by nonethewiser 3y ago
It makes me think of the Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode where Dennis hypocritically appeals to authority in an effort to disprove creationism. The valuable point the skit makes is that there is a sort of “cult of science” where people mistake faith for reason and you have a bunch of science “believers” who dont realize it. Of course this is not what science really is.
Personally, I have always been irked by phrases like “Science say” as if science itself is a centralized institution rather than a collection of people applying the scientific method.
In a similar vein, I sometimes see posts of some natural phenomena (like ants changing colors after drinking dyed water) with captions like “Isnt science cool?” Im still trying to figure out why this irks me but its weird to imply science somehow caused this.
- GMoromisato 3y agoLol--that's a great reference.
- nerpderp82 3y agoI was just mentioning to a friend of mine, a lady in her late 60s early 70s about spiders using electrostatics to travel. https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.012403 https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.0... And she remarked, "isn't evolution amazing! It figured out so many things" When someone says "Isn't science cool?", they are saying lots of things * I appreciate facts/truth * Knowing things is fun * Figuring things out is fun * There is so much we don't know about the universe I think you are putting to much semantic meaning into the grammar they are using to express their sentiments. Same goes for, "science says". It isn't enjoyable to discuss things and at the same time qualify every single statement.
- nonethewiser 3y agoIts non sensical. Not minor. Electrostatics exists without science. The point is science is a tool for learning the truth, not the cause, nor the phenomena itself. It would make more sense to say “nature is cool.” Its like looking at a painting and saying “vision is so cool.” Except worse because at least in that example you are actually using the lens (vision) to look at the phenomena.
- nerpderp82 3y agoScience is the tool that allowed us to know these truths. Your comment is damn rude.
- nonethewiser 3y agoExactly, its the tool and not the thing itself nor the cause.
- mistermann 3y ago> The valuable point the skit makes is that there is a sort of “cult of science” where people mistake faith for reason and you have a bunch of science “believers” who dont realize it. Of course this is not what science really is. Whereas with religions, the shortcomings of it's delusional followers are attributed to it. Science has got to have the shrewdest marketing department in the history of religion.
- ramblenode 3y agoEverything you just described is what I call "Scientism."