RE: Science is inherently atheistic
November 25, 2018 at 2:35 am
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2018 at 2:51 am by blue grey brain.)
(November 25, 2018 at 2:32 am)Belaqua Wrote:(November 25, 2018 at 1:44 am)blue grey brain Wrote: If you read any of the references I left, you'd probably find out that the scientific revolution/age of enlightenment was both secular and atheistic in nature.Side-note: Being inspired to do science, doesn't generate any science. As you'll probably find out on Wikipedia/atheism, modern science came about by secular or atheistic means.
- I think the issue here, is that most people feel atheism stops at rejecting or lacking belief in God. A somewhat thorough read-through of Wikipedia/atheism will underline how incomplete that picture of atheism is.
Side-note: It is also not surprising that most humans were theists, including scientists back then, especially because mankind did not always have modern science (so religion or archaic science/protoscience preceded it) or some of the modern tools which can be used to properly disregard religion. Also note persecution of the non-religious, as you'll see on Wikipedia/religious persecution.
Most historians of science today reject the conflict thesis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_thesis
Yes, I think I reject the conflict thesis too, and I garner the OP does as well.
The conflict thesis seems to propose that there was intrinsic conflict between science and religion as science developed in the days of antiquity.
- I tend to make the point that modern science emerged from religious endeavour, although religion had become obsolete. This means that modern science and archaic science or religion may share principles in the distant past, especially those concerned with evidence prioritization and experimentation. Religion however continued in a direction opposite to modern science, while failing to prioritize evidence.
- A quick and easy example to verify this point, is that "astrology/archaic science/religion/protoscience", was literally dropped from "modern science/astronomy", as you'll see in "Wikipedia/astrology and astronomy".
- You'll notice that astrology concerns deities, while astronomy does not, and since science is atheistic, astrology is now regarded as pseudoscience, again as seen on "Wikpedia/astrology and astronomy".
