(July 26, 2017 at 8:39 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(July 26, 2017 at 8:10 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: If anything, it is not false due to its age but rather due to its primitiveness; especially, during a time when some of us have intellectually surpassed the mentality of irrelevant mythologies.
Just because there is bad thinking, doesn't mean that it is false. It means it is a bad reason for the belief. I agree, there are a number of things that we are more knowledgeable about. And we have better access than ever before. However the key to most fallacies, is they ignore the reasons and evidence, and instead focus on something of no or little consequence. It doesn't follow, that because it is old, or because you believe the person is more primitive that they are incorrect and the new or more advanced is right. It is about the reasons for the claim. When the claim is made doesn't matter. Similar, would be some people, who think that older necessarily means better. We do live in a cost pinching, throw away society you know.
I would say that because it's old, or they where more primitive is more of an explanation, not a reason for the conclusion.
It seems to me that both science and religion are as old as man in some form. Surely, humans 10,000 years ago were capable of observing and experimenting on their environment.
The problem with religion is that it's very poor at answering questions of survival: how to cure diseases, for example. For sure, there are plenty of individual remedies that do work: ancient herbal uses we've forgotten about, etc.
But it is the particular way science is done now, and religion is done now, that makes science much > religion. If Christians, for example, felt that all science was essentially a religious pursuit, and they saw the vigorous study of the environment as a kind of extended prayer, then it wouldn't be the mockable tooth-fairy BS that it is today, at least in the US.
