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Originally Posted by Cathryn
With all this defining of science, with all it's branches and in all it's forms; sounds more like blind faith in a religion I'd say! And you IN are an extremist. That's OK, I understand, I was once in that sort of coma.
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Please.
Show me just
one religion that's self-correcting and self questioning, and you might be on to something.
The only way religion changes, is through bloodshed and purges. The reformers were hounded to death for pointing out the church's failures. Only in the 1980's did the Catholic Church accept Galileo Galilei's theory that the Earth might just be rotating around the sun, and not vice versa. Think about the ramifications of that, for a second. 1980. Twenty eight years ago. The Earth rotating around the sun. When you consider this, the Church that is held in such great esteem, indeed looks more like a factory of ignorance than anything else. The curch poisons the minds of the ignorant, and prevents the light cast by the candle of science to penetrate into the nooks and crannies of human misery.
Show
any scientist a failure in a set theory (show him and
prove to him that Einstein was wrong, for instance), and you will be the new Hero of Science.
Show me any religion that (per definition, I might add) continuously question itself. They don't, because they have no reason for existence apart from human insecurities and the base human fear of the dark, death, and the Unknown in general. And, of course, there's money involved. But don't ask
your priest/pastor about the money issue - they'll (of course) flat-out deny it. But that, my dear invisible faceless and nameless fellow member of Hypo, is the sole purpose for the Church's existence. The Big, Fat, Mighty Dollar. It's a con. Get over it. The Emperor is, indeed, naked. People seldomly accept when they were wrong, but in this case, I promise you, we won't point and laugh at you. Plenty of us have been done in for ages, too.
So, no. Following Science and believing in the Truth as presented by Science is
not comparable to faith in any sort of religion you'd care to mention.
Not even close.
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I woke-up and one day so will you. Only then will you stop this obsession you have to prove to the world that YOU matter.
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Ironically, that's not what Science does. Nobody here's got an obsession with anything, apart from, maybe, getting at the Truth. And when you approach the Truth from a Scientific angle, we work exclusively with empiricial data. No invisible, supernatural bullshit here.
Do you know why Scientists don't stand in droves on Sundays with their measuring equipment at Church doors to find a piece of God to test?
Basically for the same reason that they don't crowd around my pet dog Pluto with Geiger counters and similar tools to test my claim that my dog's made from Plutonium, and glows in the dark, and he can run faster than light.
And that reason is that the claim is so ludicrous that it doesn't
actually warrant the time and effort spent on proving something that is already on the face of it, even before the tests began, diametrically opposed to the laws of nature that is, unfortunately for pastor Billy Bob Jones of the Reborn Evangelical Baptist Reformed Adventist Mormon Ministries, cast in stone.
try reading more than one post before sucking up to the Mods and you might find yourself actually participating in a discussion instead of being the forum toady{sycophant}.
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