i agree. the amount of stock that is put into science borders on the same fervor that scientists scoff at when it comes from the mouths of theists. it's like how much of the science that we use now is still theoretical, in the sense that we can't prove it works, it's just that we can't prove that it DOESN'T work. like gravity. and pretty much all of quantam physics.
anyway, just a thought as you wanted responses :-P
ciao, dino-kun.
oh yeah, hero comes out on friday. go see it immediately!
Thank you, Dino. I'm always reticent about posting thinky entries, as they are normally either ignored, or turned into a knife fight. :P
And that's the thing- most of science is completely faith. I mean, we don't see lightning as electrons hurtling toward a positively-charged Earth, any more than we could see it as Zeus smiting something. Even something so simple as math. We can say 2+3=5, but we have no idea that, the next time we do it, it'll be true; you might find that putting two apples with three apples make six apples, or twenty-nine apples, or eleventy-billion apples. In fact, I encourage all readers to try this out, right now- find two objects and put them with three objects, and see how many you get.
I'll wait. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Not a single one of you did it. Did you
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This is why I didn't get along with hechtel so well at school. She was so unquestioning towards sience that whatever didn't fall into her paradigm of scientific stuff was immediately discarded. She refused to acknowledge that the placebo effect could be beneficial, or that chiropractors could help anyone because it "wasn't scientific."
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anyway, just a thought as you wanted responses :-P
ciao,
dino-kun.
oh yeah, hero comes out on friday. go see it immediately!
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And that's the thing- most of science is completely faith. I mean, we don't see lightning as electrons hurtling toward a positively-charged Earth, any more than we could see it as Zeus smiting something. Even something so simple as math. We can say 2+3=5, but we have no idea that, the next time we do it, it'll be true; you might find that putting two apples with three apples make six apples, or twenty-nine apples, or eleventy-billion apples. In fact, I encourage all readers to try this out, right now- find two objects and put them with three objects, and see how many you get.
I'll wait.
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