If I were an Atheist

[AdamLOV]

The thing with science is that it is something that could conceivably be checked by other people. I may have to do a bit of research and get some tools but it is way of getting to truths dispassionately.

Religious "facts" are...... actually what is a religious "fact"? To be a fact you need evidence and religions don't have any, just very poor arguments. 


What's your point?


So?


So you have a problem with educated people.
This would appear to be an argument FOR ignorance.
Forgetting that science works and religions don't.

Truth is not a social construct.
What is true is not a matter of opinion or popularity contest what is true just is.
Science is the only method that works to get to the truth of matters because it has been made that way. The technigue refined over centuries so it now works fairly well. Its not perfect but it is better than the what went before which boiled down to what some people reckoned and ended up some some stupid beliefs like the ether and humors.

Everyone thinks their own method is the best one... until a rival scientist comes along and disproves that method. Truth is only truth as long as it is accepted by every player in the science/sports/religion/language game. A rule is only a rule as long as we all and sincerely agree that it applies to the reality we inhabit. Now one may believe in a certain truth (I believe that God is absent from this dimension, I believe the universe is composed, for the most part, of black holes because physicist's calculations), but absolute knowledge is impossible. Truth is, at best, transient. Even the truth of my saying this might be disproved, but I see no proof for the claim of objective truth. I would repeat that merely because truth is a social construct does not entail that it should be considered unvalid. All this recognition entails is that truths must be considered on their own terms. Inca medicine should be analyzed based on its own promises and criteria. Similarly, Western medicine can only be evaluated based on criteria it itself has developed.

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I have no problem with educated people. I do, however, take issue with people who have been educated in a particular manner and feel superior to those who have been educated in a different way, in the context of a different culture. The two should not be treated as unequal, otherwise this would be cultural imperialism of a particularly risible variety.