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You Should Really Lean Into Your Faith in Scientific Progress Right Now - http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/11/having-faith-in-scientific-progress-will-help-you-out.html
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Don't know if I'd agree with that. Cool photo though. Maybe time to change my avatar.
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@tuttle why not? I think that faith in religion and science can be non-exclusive. So you can actually follow your religion (even if it's created by yourself, why not?) and science.
You want to believe there was a god that created the universe while believe in evolution and medicine? go ahead!
Said this, I don't consider myself a believer in any religion, I think they have cool teachings but that's it.
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@moshpirit Some might say that science is religion rebooted.
Nukes = Armageddon
Artificial Intelligence = Removing the spirit from the flesh
Genetics = Playing God
Space exploration = Going to heaven
Priests have a church, Scientist have a lab
Priests have a gown, so do scientists
Religion show us words and tell us there within is truth (back when people couldn't read), Scientists tell us the truth is written in Math (no one can read that either).
Taking that a bit further.
Your PC is your Alter.
When you check your mail, your gnusocial, your server logs, you are thumbing through the Rosary Beads.
The LEDS on your PC, mouse, and monitior are in reality church candles burning in the night.
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@tuttle da fuq? I can read Math and not all science is written in Math and everybody is welcome to learn and do their own experiments (which differs a lot from just praying). These comparatives can be made with probably any job.
Nukes + fear + ignorance + politics = Armageddon
Or even just ignorance and fear.
Dehumanization (philosophy) = Removing the spirit from the flesh
Politics (including some religious organisations such as the Spanish inquisition) = Playing God
Space exploration it's not going to heaven if we consider the heaven as the eternal paradise. Dying by an disease on the other hand could lead you to such heaven.
Priest have a church, scientist have a lab, designer have a studio, business man have an office. Does it make design and business another rebooted religions too?
While religious people believe, scientists prove things (right or wrong). There's a scientific method that makes a difference.
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@tuttle in fact, IT could be also considered a religion if just coders can understand how a program works
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@moshpirit Just voicing an alternative version here, whether it be right or not. 😙 If you believe 9/11 was an inside job then that leads to ask, were does the ugly dark cruel face of humanity come from?
Anyway, at face value. Let's say I don't know how to read the written word, or do maths. Three centuries ago priests told me they knew the way to truth, a way for me to understand reality and our place in it. It was true because it was holy scripture, written in the bible.
Now, in the present, science has occupied that space. Science says that science is the way to understand our reality because science says it is. it's a loop. It is a monolithic belief system.
Just saying.
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And science is used against us just as religion was.
Alberto
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