(April 8, 2014 at 7:36 am)Galacticer Wrote: so, you are proving my point that it is about a belief system and not something which is very logical and rational, far from it.Should've just stated this up front and made clear what you were trying to prove. Not that it seemed to fool anyone, but we've seen so many different flavors of crazy here that it's good to know from the beginning.
(science really is disguided form of religion, yes I know how absurd thism may seem at first, however it really is)
There are certainly a lot of people who accept science on its face, particularly the more complex and involved fields. The difference being that scientific hypotheses and theories are testable and falsifiable (if they are not, they aren't very scientific). Most religious claims are neither testable nor falsifiable; you must accept them at face value, and I don't think that there is a single person who has ever accepted every religion's teachings even though one is just as impossible to disprove as any other.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
