As much as I'd like to hope that replacing Sky Daddy means more people being Scientific Socialists, I'm afraid they will be replaced by more Social Darwinist who wish to prove phrenology, "was correct all along." In America, at least.
Theories can be tested, they can be proven false. You don't accept a theory as true based on faith alone, the evidence has to be there as well. Of course there are things we don't know, and there is speculation in those fields, but that is not at all the same thing as putting faith into a specific explanation because you feel it in your heart. Science is built upon observation and experimentation, not blind faith. This is what distinguishes it from a religion.
People lavishing praise on people like Elon Musk and his Hyperloop and Boring Tunnel garbage doesn't make science a religion. You know what people have used to demonstrate that "his" "ideas" are complete and utter bs? A surface-level examination of the science behind it. Stuff like Musk's pesudoscientific promises have been peddled since long before the days of Snake Oil salesmen. It's the same thing it always has been; people falling for a con man.
Most scientists do not claim to know everything, even about their own particular field of study. The problem I see is science journalism being clickbait bullshit for know it all libs to efficiently consume.
Some scientists are shit, because scientists are people with all the same flaws a human inherits. Science is about removing human error as much as possible to find a small truth and more often than not it brings with it more questions than answers.
I get being bother by, "smart people and science will save us" rhetoric, but that comes from journalists selling news and not scientists describing their research. That's why I'm concerned in the first place.
As much as I'd like to hope that replacing Sky Daddy means more people being Scientific Socialists, I'm afraid they will be replaced by more Social Darwinist who wish to prove phrenology, "was correct all along." In America, at least.
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TIL knowledge derived from centuries of theory and experimentations = putting faith into the unknown
We shouldn't be le epic reddit atheists but this is something I'd expect to see from prageru
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Theories can be tested, they can be proven false. You don't accept a theory as true based on faith alone, the evidence has to be there as well. Of course there are things we don't know, and there is speculation in those fields, but that is not at all the same thing as putting faith into a specific explanation because you feel it in your heart. Science is built upon observation and experimentation, not blind faith. This is what distinguishes it from a religion.
People lavishing praise on people like Elon Musk and his Hyperloop and Boring Tunnel garbage doesn't make science a religion. You know what people have used to demonstrate that "his" "ideas" are complete and utter bs? A surface-level examination of the science behind it. Stuff like Musk's pesudoscientific promises have been peddled since long before the days of Snake Oil salesmen. It's the same thing it always has been; people falling for a con man.
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Most scientists do not claim to know everything, even about their own particular field of study. The problem I see is science journalism being clickbait bullshit for know it all libs to efficiently consume.
Some scientists are shit, because scientists are people with all the same flaws a human inherits. Science is about removing human error as much as possible to find a small truth and more often than not it brings with it more questions than answers.
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I get being bother by, "smart people and science will save us" rhetoric, but that comes from journalists selling news and not scientists describing their research. That's why I'm concerned in the first place.
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