RE: Science is inherently atheistic
November 25, 2018 at 7:05 am
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2018 at 7:52 am by Homeless Nutter.)
I don't know, if science can be called "inherently atheistic". There are ways to conceive of potential beings- however far-fetched - that could be described as "gods", according to some of the multitude of available definitions of deities, and be theoretically compatible with scientific world-view. Like Aristotelian prime mover, non-intervening versions of god proposed by deists, or even some sci-fi concepts, like unimaginably powerful aliens and such. However...
In a world with an omnipotent, omnipresent, interventionist god, preoccupied with every minute detail of human existence, science would be impossible. That's because you can't control for miracles. And you can't read god's mind, know his "plan", or predict his "mysterious ways". Even if you can fool yourself into believing, that god would never, ever, ever interfere with human pursuit of knowledge - there's still Satan and other evil magical beings, whose sole purpose is f*cking with people. No wonder many theists, living in a world populated with such fantastic entities, don't trust scientists, especially whenever their findings contradict ideological beliefs.
You can have magic, or you can have science - you can't have both. That's why every properly conducted scientific experiment ever was founded on the presumption, that there aren't conscious beings, able to freely interfere with every particle and every force in the universe, on a whim and with no regard for the laws of physics.
No reasonable medical study accounts for miraculous recoveries due to prayers, or asks their participants, if perhaps they had done something, that might have caused god to want them to die. No scientific protocol includes enchantments against the "forces of darkness". No scientists are screened for witchcraft, or devil worship. No technology requires ritualistic slaughtering of an animal in order to work....
In a world with an omnipotent, omnipresent, interventionist god, preoccupied with every minute detail of human existence, science would be impossible. That's because you can't control for miracles. And you can't read god's mind, know his "plan", or predict his "mysterious ways". Even if you can fool yourself into believing, that god would never, ever, ever interfere with human pursuit of knowledge - there's still Satan and other evil magical beings, whose sole purpose is f*cking with people. No wonder many theists, living in a world populated with such fantastic entities, don't trust scientists, especially whenever their findings contradict ideological beliefs.
You can have magic, or you can have science - you can't have both. That's why every properly conducted scientific experiment ever was founded on the presumption, that there aren't conscious beings, able to freely interfere with every particle and every force in the universe, on a whim and with no regard for the laws of physics.
No reasonable medical study accounts for miraculous recoveries due to prayers, or asks their participants, if perhaps they had done something, that might have caused god to want them to die. No scientific protocol includes enchantments against the "forces of darkness". No scientists are screened for witchcraft, or devil worship. No technology requires ritualistic slaughtering of an animal in order to work....
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
