Why Should We Love Science?

[comet]

Fuck 'em.  They can tell it to Galileo.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-histo...-of-heresy

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The Church had decided the idea that the Sun moved around the Earth was an absolute fact of scripture that could not be disputed, despite the fact that scientists had known for centuries that the Earth was not the center of the universe.

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Churchies are assholes.

this ignores historical context. but I'ma guessin you don't give a fuck.

[robvalue]

Hey, Newton invented gravity and history. Just think where we'd be without those?

And he invented apples, I think.

[abaris]

And I would add that the church has a rather mixed record with regard to science.  When it has been able, it has repressed results that conflict with then current theology, not by rational argument, but by force.

They haven't got a mixed record. If they believed it to be a danger to their dogma, they supressed it.

The irony lies in that much of medieval science came from muslim sources. Back then they weren't afraid of science and education and mingling with them during the crusades led to the first cracks in the armor of stupidity that made up Europe up to that point.

Friedrich II saw that. He invited muslims to his court. For his time he was very interested in the laws of nature and wrote several books about it. His most famous, I believe, a book on falcons. Through his whole lifetime he wasn't on the best footing with the holy see and was excommunicated for not going on a promised crusade. And even when finally embarking on that adventure he shined in comparison to his peers. He won Jerusalem by negotiating instead of slaughter.

[Minimalist]

Fuck 'em.  They can tell it to Galileo.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-histo...-of-heresy

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Churchies are assholes.

this ignores historical context. but I'ma guessin you don't give a fuck.

Not when it comes to morons.

[Longhorn]

You don't gotta love it.... It's enough if you recognize and understand its method.... And not call it a religion -_-

[Iroscato]

I missed the link, but I'd be hard-pressed to say I love 'science'. Rather, I love our continuous efforts to improve our knowledge and understanding, not science as an entity.

[Cyberman]

I wouldn't say I love it either. I appreciate its power to find truth and am thankful for its benefits. If I fall to some treachery of my own existence, I trust it to catch me and soften my landing with medical knowledge undreamed of barely a century ago. If all that science has gifted us and all the knowledge of their discovery were suddenly wiped away, I can say with certainty that most of us wouldn't last a week.

[ignoramus]

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don't "love" science.  It aint a deity for no Christ sake.  next thing you now we will be idolizing creeps like Newton.  He was good at math, but he was a sick jerk off outside of that.  

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idolizing?
Sorry, I'm not familiar with that term.
Please explain to an atheist what it means?

[robvalue]

Love science huh?

It would help if people recognised that virtually everything they use in their daily life has been designed using some sort of science. They seem to think science is just a few hateful insane professors locked in a bunker somewhere trying to humiliate religion.

Science isn't meant to be a competitor to religion, it's religion which keeps demanding this comparison. Bad idea, because religion loses hard every time in every way.

[Cyberman]

I do rather like the sound of 'love science', though.

(James Brown impression): "Everything's fine, baby, I'm a scientist... of lurrrrve."