It seems to come in handy when you’re having unexplained chest pains, or you’d like to travel across the country in under 6 hours, or you’d like to register your opinion about science’s overratedness to millions of complete strangers.
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It justifies atheism and therefore all kinds of sin. It also seems to be a means of making fun of people who question our culture’s worship of modern science.
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And yet scientists admit that they’re wrong or that they don’t know all the time.
No, they present their theories as facts, regardless that they are not logical.
Science does not justify atheism, when in fact the two previous Popes have said that science and Christianity often strengthen each other (if I recall correctly, someone feel free to correct me if I am wrong). Modern science, and how it has developed to help us as a whole, is a good thing.
I’ve read before (I cannot recall any specific instances at the moment, but I hav read it in my science schoolbook) that scientists often publish their theories so they may be given constructive criticism by their fellow scientists if any of their theory is incorrect; only arrogant scientists (and there are a few, just as there are arrogant people in any group) would present their theories as outright fact when they first publish it.
Science is neutral; it’s just science-usually useful but producing both beneficial as well as harmful results, very interesting at times, at least for awhile or until the next discovery comes along. Anyway it’s simply incapable, so far, at least, of contributing a great deal to the discussion about God either for or against.
No You are right, but the common assumption among atheists is that it helps prove the non-existence, or provides more grounds for the non existence of GOD, which btw,are both false ideas. I think modern man needs to return to Philosophy. We need to start asking the fundamental questions again or we will continue to be a scientifically advanced but mediocre culture. Very mediocre. Philosophy is the mother of science.Well…
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Nah, I kid. It brings us lots of pretty neat stuff. Like computers and medicine and what-not. Honestly, Science isn’t any kind of institution. It’s just the method we use to find out stuff. We need to ‘worship’ it - it’s important for us to keep finding out, eh, stuff. And things. Without science, we’d just be making things up, and that’s just gosh-darned silly!
Oh, and no, science does not justify atheism. It doesn’t really prove or disprove God.
For good reason, Science is great, even I admit it so, but what ever happened to Philosophy, the Mother of Science? All questions come from the basic and fundamental ones.
I think Scientism is what you’re looking for.
No, science isn’t arrogant; some scientists may be. Science has cured diseases that have plagued mankind for millennia, and has shown us the glory of God’s creation in achievements such as the Hubble telescope. I have never understood why some peoples’ faith is threatened by the idea that the Earth isn’t flat, that germs - and not evil spirits - cause disease, that the sun doesn’t revolve around the earth, and that the earth is older than the 5,240 years (or so) calculated by Bishop Ussher.
That’s precisely my problem with it though. If you are like me and really like Aristotle, then you must conclude that the more scientific something is, the less useful it becomes. This is why the most scientific science is only good in itself and has no real application to other things except incidentally.
As you’re defining it, the most scientific science perhaps starts out that way, but its utility generally grows over time. Think about chemistry - we probably knew about the existence of atoms and elements and the difference between them all for years without having practical applications for it. While this was going on, our understanding of human biology was also growing, to the extent that we realized our bodies are made up of precisely the same elements that we find elsewhere in the world. There’s iron in the rocks. There’s iron in our blood. How is this relevant to anything? Nobody knew for awhile. But eventually, our understanding of elements in chemistry and our understanding of human biology allowed the field of bio-chemistry to develop. Today, what we learn about chemistry can easily be considered in the context of human biology, and vice versa.