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quote:Originally posted by MjhavokScience is a method.
quote:Certainly a valid point of view, but in that case most of what is taught as science in schools is not science at all, for what is taught is taught as fact, not as method.
quote:Science 'facts' and scientific 'laws' are not of themselves mere methods, even if they may have been the result of such methods.
quote:Originally posted by another_someonequote:Originally posted by MjhavokScience is a method.Certainly a valid point of view, but in that case most of what is taught as science in schools is not science at all, for what is taught is taught as fact, not as method.Science 'facts' and scientific 'laws' are not of themselves mere methods, even if they may have been the result of such methods.George
quote:Originally posted by MjhavokThis is true but most of these facts are taught because people used the scientific method or they just did many experiments and observed the results to make sure it is correct without even knowing a scientific method. Religion in my understanding doesn't have evidence to support it. I consider science to be a way of understand the universe it all its forms. Facts exist that people are taught and learnt are not the science, it's the how these where found out that is the science. In my humble opinion :-S
quote:Originally posted by another_someonequote:Originally posted by MjhavokThis is true but most of these facts are taught because people used the scientific method or they just did many experiments and observed the results to make sure it is correct without even knowing a scientific method. Religion in my understanding doesn't have evidence to support it. I consider science to be a way of understand the universe it all its forms. Facts exist that people are taught and learnt are not the science, it's the how these where found out that is the science. In my humble opinion :-SI don't agree at all with this.Clearly, religion has supporting evidence, otherwise no-one would have believed it at all. George
quote:Originally posted by MjhavokAre you serious?
quote: What is the evidence that supports religion?. I have to say I disagree with you on this one George. The only reason people believed in religion in the past is because they had nothing else to describe the world in all it's splendor. After this people in power forced their religion on others who perhaps didn't have a specific religion or believed in another religion followed by a lot of death. People today believe in religion and in god because it is embedded into society handed down from our ancestors so most have been brought up with it. When you are young you believe totally what you are told until you reach a certain age and start thinking for youself you believe what you are told. By this time a child has already been taken to church/chapel/mosque whatever and told that god is all powerful and he created existance. This is very comforting even to adults that have lost loved ones.
quote:Science accepts new evidence even if it changes fundamental laws or for want of a better word beliefs. Some people in science may challenge new evidence but if has been verified and tested many times then the masses accept it and science is forever changed and we progress.Can you see the church changing in the same way I doubt it.
quote:No evidence exists that proves Jesus was real and he was the son of god or that the quaran is god word. I think there is more of a chance of finding a martian in the shape of an ass in the center of mars.
quote:Originally posted by VAlibrarianBut the Catholic insistence that a fertilized egg cell is the same as a human being still stands- and the papal concept that birth control is immoral has helped to saddle the third world with a crushing burden of overpopulation. Religions are based on faith. Science is not. Science is based on the idea that the belief flows from how the experiment goes, not the other way around.