RE: Science is inherently atheistic
November 24, 2018 at 3:42 pm
(This post was last modified: November 24, 2018 at 3:45 pm by blue grey brain.)
(November 24, 2018 at 3:03 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(November 24, 2018 at 1:57 pm)blue grey brain Wrote: I recommend Wikipedia/history of science, or Wikipedia/scientific revolution or Wikipedia/atheism.
All will show that modern science quite literally emerged when theistic components were dropped from science.
I think the issue here is that many people think atheism merely stops at rejecting deities. Instead, data shows atheism is stitched into modern science, and directly influenced how modern science came to be.
- Religion had value in days of antiquity, as naive ways to describe the cosmos, and it enabled the development of modern science. However, religion continued in a direction contrary to modern science, sticking to old models such as cosmological argument or astrological principles, while modern science discarded those. Notice that atrology/religion is now regarded as pseudoscience.
This is an example of the genetic fallacy. (The naturalistic fallacy is also involved, though not determinatively.)
On the contrary, science continues to be an atheistic endeavour.
- You'll probably notice that modern science still excludes religious endeavour such as astrology. Besides, as I explained before, modern science originated from principles related to religiosity, so this would be an obvious counter example to your claim.