Quote: (04-15-2018 10:56 AM)Paracelsus Wrote:
how most people require translation, interpretation, of both science and religion.
Key point to note here is that you can do an experiment yourself, but you can't measure, test or religious dogma or teachings.
Finding and holding up a few dickheads that do science badly and using them to tar the scientific paradigm is like me dismissing religion based on people to believe in the Easter Bunny. (which I do, but that's also unfair and disingenuous)
You are a smart guy, somewhere deep in your understanding of the scientific principles I am sure you understand how it all works, no matter how many times you have seen people mangle the approach.
I am sure you are smart enough to compare that to religious faith and understand that they stand starkly at opposite ends of a thought paradigm.
Most clever religious people admit this as well, and I am fine with them being two separate themes.
I think it's dishonest and shows a lack of understanding of scientific principles to suggest that people have "faith" in it, or require blind adherence to anything. Lack of evidence, proof or repeatable objective observations is dismissed by the true scientific mind.
This is the polar opposite of the religious process, which requires "faith" in the absence of evidence, no possible observation or repeatable evidence.
I have always thought this is the internal dilemma for rational, objective, non-emotional men. It goes against everything they know about the world they live in, and runs opposite to their modus operandi of daily life.
Imagine for a moment my bewilderment of working with highly intelligent engineers that effectively believe in the Easter bunny.. I struggle to understand.
Quote: (04-15-2018 10:56 AM)Paracelsus Wrote:
--I'd say if you can't take it, don't dish it out my friend.
haha Thats a fair cop guv.