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New Theories / Re: Is science becoming a religion?
« on: 24/08/2006 13:29:01 »
Of course science would be only a religion, if we accepted its results blindly, without even thinking about them; in that case, it wouldn't be science anylonger. But, even the very activity we are doing in this forum, asking to ourselves and to others questions about science, discussing them, controlling or verifying them with experiments or with mathematics or else, proposing doubts on the very fundations of science, makes the difference between science and religion, I think.
It's true, however, that in science we should be careful to be as aware as possible to which are our believes, our starting points (called "assumptions" or "postulates"). Only when scientists have been able to discuss and to change them, science has made the greatest leaps ahed, I think. (Note that I said: "I think", not "I believe"!).
It's true, however, that in science we should be careful to be as aware as possible to which are our believes, our starting points (called "assumptions" or "postulates"). Only when scientists have been able to discuss and to change them, science has made the greatest leaps ahed, I think. (Note that I said: "I think", not "I believe"!).