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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
September 21, 2016 at 12:51 am
(September 18, 2016 at 7:07 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: (September 18, 2016 at 1:36 am)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to respond?
Remind them that science has provided more answers in the last 100 years than religion ever has, or ever will.
According to the Latin root word for religion "re ligare" (to bring together, to bind, to unify), science is the most successful religion since the dawn of history. What else has actually connected humankind together more?
Your lame attempts to equate science with religion will gain you no ground whatsoever around here.
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
September 21, 2016 at 1:52 am
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(September 21, 2016 at 12:51 am)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: (September 18, 2016 at 7:07 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: According to the Latin root word for religion "re ligare" (to bring together, to bind, to unify), science is the most successful religion since the dawn of history. What else has actually connected humankind together more?
Your lame attempts to equate science with religion will gain you no ground whatsoever around here. Equate??? You've far misunderstood me. I'm saying science is many orders of magnitude more successful at unifying humanity than religion has been. It does a much better job and put's textually based religion (belief systems) to shame.
If faith without works is dead, then belief without practice is not a living religion, it's a mental belief system. It's only power is in the mind of the believer and does nothing to unify humanity at large.
Jame 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
That is a doing and a not doing.....not an iota about beliefs. Science is all about repetition of practice that yields reliable results....like a reliable person.
In symbolic language, orphans are those who are ignorant by innocence and do not have loving guidance. Widows are those who's hopes, dreams and ability to provide for themselves has passed.
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
September 21, 2016 at 1:33 pm
(September 18, 2016 at 7:07 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: (September 18, 2016 at 1:36 am)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to respond?
Remind them that science has provided more answers in the last 100 years than religion ever has, or ever will.
According to the Latin root word for religion "re ligare" (to bring together, to bind, to unify), science is the most successful religion since the dawn of history. What else has actually connected humankind together more? I have a very suspicious feeling that you know what the difference between 'religion' and 'science' are, but you're just intentionally being obtuse, pedantic, and difficult.
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September 21, 2016 at 1:38 pm
Well..also the Latin root that Ark proposed is one of several etymologies for the word 'religion' and its precise history is not really known.
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
September 23, 2016 at 1:31 pm
(September 21, 2016 at 1:38 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Well..also the Latin root that Ark proposed is one of several etymologies for the word 'religion' and its precise history is not really known. If you find something that makes sense and works and is supported by others. Use it.
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
September 23, 2016 at 2:43 pm
My favorite? "Derp."
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
September 23, 2016 at 3:35 pm
(September 23, 2016 at 1:31 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: (September 21, 2016 at 1:38 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Well..also the Latin root that Ark proposed is one of several etymologies for the word 'religion' and its precise history is not really known. If you find something that makes sense and works and is supported by others. Use it. And that's why the modern definition and modern usage of a word are priority.
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
September 23, 2016 at 5:17 pm
I've always kind of laughed at this. Science isn't an attempt to "explain everything". It's a method of discovery, and a damned good one at that. In fact, anything which attempts to explain everything is inherently untrustworthy. What if you simply don't have enough information to explain something? You have to make something up. What good is that? A made-up explanation is a useless explanation.
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
September 23, 2016 at 6:52 pm
(September 23, 2016 at 3:35 pm)LostLocke Wrote: (September 23, 2016 at 1:31 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: If you find something that makes sense and works and is supported by others. Use it. And that's why the modern definition and modern usage of a word are priority.
That's also why dictionaries record language use, instead of defining words.
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
September 23, 2016 at 6:59 pm
If someone says science can't explain everything, pull a mooney.
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