RE: Tell me, what makes this wrong.
July 22, 2025 at 6:12 am
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2025 at 6:13 am by Alan V.)
(July 22, 2025 at 12:04 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Every bit of science is tentative. When Einstein rolled out Special Relativity in 1905 or so, he corrected such a limelight as Newton. Wegener overturned the view of Earth's geology, albeit in a much longer timescale; but the point remains that science is, and more importantly must be, tentative. The essence of the scientific method is that it may turn up a better explanation.
Religion, on the other hand, generally eschews any questioning at all, and frowns upon it as it occurs. The best explanation has already been written down in holy books that are immune to questioning. Which might find truth faster?
I'm gonna go with questions. That's why I trust science more than faith.
Religious epistemology has been shown to be incorrect by science, specifically by psychologists. Human perceptions and intuitions are too partial, biased, subject to conditioning, and therefore inaccurate unaided.
And scientists have demonstrated that we can't depend on "revelations" to be correct. Galileo and Darwin especially.
This is why scientists are tentative. They know they need to be cautious to avoid the same mistakes. But they become more confident as they run more tests with positive results.