RE: Science is inherently atheistic
November 24, 2018 at 9:02 pm
(This post was last modified: November 24, 2018 at 9:04 pm by ignoramus.)
(November 24, 2018 at 7:31 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(November 24, 2018 at 1:31 pm)blue grey brain Wrote:
- Atheism does not merely concern rejecting deities, as you'll see on Wikipedia/atheism, or point 2 below.
- Modern Science is an atheistic endeavour. Since we didn't always have modern science, it is probably no surprise that Modern Science emerged from "archaic science/religion/protoscience" in the scientific revolution, as religion was literally dropped from science in the scientific revolution or age of enlightenment. See "Wikipedia/protoscience", or "Wikipedia/Scientific revolution". A quick example: See when "astrology/religion/archaic science" was dropped from "modern science/astronomy", on Wikipedia/astrology and astronomy.
- This does not mean I am saying religious scientists can't exist. However, atheistic scientists are scientists that tend to objectively analyse the truth value of religion; they precisely align with the scientific endeavour of disregarding religious endeavour. This contrasts non-atheistic scientists on this matter, who disregard or "turn off" scientific endeavour while analyzing religion.
Here's an example from math, rather than science, but I think it's relevant.
George Cantor was a mathematician who made important contributions to his field, particularly in how we think about infinity. He was also a devoted Christian all his life, and felt strongly that his discoveries came from divine revelation. For him, mathematics was far from atheistic.
The people who checked his math, though, did so from an entirely mathematical viewpoint. To them, the discoveries' divine nature was not something they could address. His math stood or fell in the non-revelatory world of pure logic. Mathematicians since have generally adopted his view. It is mostly irrelevant to them that some religious people have also argued that what he says about infinity applies to God as well.
good point Bel.
Science's job is to discover and document facts about our natural universe. It's everyone else's job to apply all the bias they want to any of these facts. People's opinions have always meant nothing to science.
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