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06-24-2010, 08:26 PM #81
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^^Interesting! Hi, Aje!
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." - Bertrand Russell
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07-05-2010, 12:59 AM #82
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interesting because in science many theories first start off as beliefs or theories i should say. nothing in science *should* be taking as 100% true without some experimenting, which means that everything we take as being scientifically true first started off as a belief.
i think this scientist might be a good scientist, but he's probably not such a good on the history of science. how can you have a clear picture of where you're going if you dont quite understand where you've been?
i think clinging to anything regarding knowledge for the sake of clinging to it is limiting - whether that be religious doctrines or scientific
when people lose the ability to ask "what if..?" then that's probably a sign that we're going to stop progressing.
the problem i have with both sides of this argument is that both those who cling to science and those who cling to religion tend to operate under the assumption that there is no new information possible and everything has been explained.
for instance, take the notion of the "supernatural". our assumption is that we understand everything there is to know about the natural and if what we observe doesn't fit into that understanding then it has to be in the realm of supernatural.
because there are things like carbon dating, strata dating, etc. it's hard to confirm a story mainly because human behavior insists upon changing that story. not sure if you've ever played telephone, but a simple sentence can get changed in the course of 15 minutes. it's pretty safe to assume that the magnitude of a story's change will be even greater over 15 centuries.
one place where science gets itself in trouble is when it tries to create a narrative based on what it finds. stringing together a set of facts and trying to create a story out of them is just potentially another type of fiction.
past experience has shown that is something is mathematically possible , then it's highly likely that it's physically possible. what's going on in CERN right now is an example of that. the issue is that our ability to recreate those possibilities are hindered by the limitation of our tools.
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^^I've enjoyed reading this thread. Thanks for bumping it.
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Re: Science vs Belief
Thank you- I was wondering what people thought about Darwin... or who was the father of science since someone keeps trying to erase education...
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