RE: Separation of Science and State
November 18, 2020 at 12:32 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2020 at 12:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Reporters can be prosecuted for divulging the contents of classified research. Reporters cannot be prosecuted for divulging the contents of a religion.
No one has any specific right to, or to do, science. It is well within a states authority to completely shut down entire avenues of research, and nothing other than an existential dilemma prevents them from shutting the whole thing down. The boys from the manhattan project couldn't stand on a street corner describing the construction of a bomb, they'd have been buried under a prison - and it doesn't matter how much a geneticist complains that human animal hybrids are his science..... but you and anyone else are perfectly free to stand on that same street corner and babble about ghosts. It's your religion.
As thre major religions of the world scramble to include or appropriate science, and as people begin to construct new scientific religions, and as science takes the place of norm setting in the minds of more people (and more religious people) we probably will have some issue or question over assertions to religious laws that have the backing of science. We write them off now as not having that, but when they do....trouble trouble. People who are generally and genuinely committed to the idea of science as a guide for our laws are already on path to being united in a moral whole. The big bad religion that sweeps away these protections probably wont be some version of a haunted house story - it will be our religion of nature..this is already the kind of religion that the superstitious and skeptical seek. It's the kind of religion that carl sagan opined on dreamily. One that would draw on an immense source of power, and..ostensibly, accrue power - then use it.
No one has any specific right to, or to do, science. It is well within a states authority to completely shut down entire avenues of research, and nothing other than an existential dilemma prevents them from shutting the whole thing down. The boys from the manhattan project couldn't stand on a street corner describing the construction of a bomb, they'd have been buried under a prison - and it doesn't matter how much a geneticist complains that human animal hybrids are his science..... but you and anyone else are perfectly free to stand on that same street corner and babble about ghosts. It's your religion.
As thre major religions of the world scramble to include or appropriate science, and as people begin to construct new scientific religions, and as science takes the place of norm setting in the minds of more people (and more religious people) we probably will have some issue or question over assertions to religious laws that have the backing of science. We write them off now as not having that, but when they do....trouble trouble. People who are generally and genuinely committed to the idea of science as a guide for our laws are already on path to being united in a moral whole. The big bad religion that sweeps away these protections probably wont be some version of a haunted house story - it will be our religion of nature..this is already the kind of religion that the superstitious and skeptical seek. It's the kind of religion that carl sagan opined on dreamily. One that would draw on an immense source of power, and..ostensibly, accrue power - then use it.
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