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Science isn't aiming to disprove religion it just does it as knowledge progresses. E.g. The Earth revolves around the Sun.
Science hasn't proven magic real yet and I doubt it ever will.
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: demiu5]
#23389120 - 06/27/16 09:00 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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The only god that science doesn't explicitly contradict is the god of the gaps. That is, a god carefully constructed to live in the gaps of our knowledge that nobody really worships anyway.
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: sudly]
#23389147 - 06/27/16 09:07 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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sure, but the significant actions and beliefs are the ones that materially effect the world and other people IMO. as i mentioned Nazis were secular. believing in god or not is not what makes a person or institution good or bad.
Beliefs help us form actions but the beliefs themselves do not materially effect the world.
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quinn said: Nazis were secular
Do you mean the Nazi's who killed people for being Jewish?
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anyone can practice the scientific method in their life by themselves. you dont need to be in contact with the scientific community to do real science. science in essence is a method
Science follows the scientific method, I don't think we disagree
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yeah, 'common'='shared' sense, our socialisation informs our morality
Or common = basic thought/feeling E.g. Do you want to be stabbed?
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: sudly]
#23389148 - 06/27/16 09:08 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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sudly said: Science isn't aiming to disprove religion it just does it as knowledge progresses. E.g. The Earth revolves around the Sun.
Science hasn't proven magic real yet and I doubt it ever will.
when/where has science disproven any religion, since you say "it just does...?"
and for your example given, scientists are the ones who proclaimed the earth was the center of all the universe, and that everything revolved around it. how species-centric does it get, eh?
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: DieCommie]
#23389156 - 06/27/16 09:10 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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DieCommie said: The only god that science doesn't explicitly contradict is the god of the gaps. That is, a god carefully constructed to live in the gaps of our knowledge that nobody really worships anyway.
Isn't that where any viable God lives, anyway? In the in-between, in the spaces that aren't full of busy-ness or casual-effect? The places where we feel an infinite space. That's what I feel, anyway.
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: demiu5]
#23389158 - 06/27/16 09:10 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thor is one example, he doesn't make lightning.
The Earth was formed over 4 billion years ago over a long period of time as gases collapsed to form the planet. < (This alone removes the basis of a lot of religions)
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: sudly] 1
#23389200 - 06/27/16 09:24 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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sudly said: Thor is one example, he doesn't make lightning.
The Earth was formed over 4 billion years ago over a long period of time as gases collapsed to form the planet. < (This alone removes the basis of a lot of religions)
I think another layer is added when you take literalism vs metaphorism. So maybe there's a scientific explanation for lightning, but the storyof Thor and what it describes from an emotional, cultural, and subjective perspective may be more (or atleast equally as) important as what the explanation provides.
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: demiu5] 3
#23389201 - 06/27/16 09:25 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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demiu5 said: scientists are the ones who proclaimed the earth was the center of all the universe, and that everything revolved around it.
I've never heard of any scientist that claimed anything of the sort. But even if you want to water down scientist to include ancient natural philosophers and mystics this still isn't a mark against science. Nobody should ever think that scientific conclusions are always true and unbiased... That is not the power of science. The power of science is that all scientific conclusions are assailable and subject to being updated or overturned completely in light of new evidence.
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: sudly]
#23389298 - 06/27/16 10:05 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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sudly said: Beliefs help us form actions but the beliefs themselves do not materially effect the world.
sure agreed
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quinn said: Nazis were secular
Do you mean the Nazi's who killed people for being Jewish?
yes, obviously. (??)
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Science follows the scientific method, I don't think we disagree 
yes i was just reiterating that science is a method, not a form of social organisation (like religion)
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yeah, 'common'='shared' sense, our socialisation informs our morality
Or common = basic thought/feeling E.g. Do you want to be stabbed?
i would argue that on a social level a basic thought or feeling is informed by the standards we set for one another. i think a lot of our feelings depend upon the social contexts we are in
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: quinn]
#23389448 - 06/27/16 10:58 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I agree that our behaviours are influenced by our up bringing but humans get to a point in maturity when they can make decisions for themselves.
The difficult part of this is that a lot of people make the wrong choices. I.E. I don't need to follow the law.
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: sudly]
#23389576 - 06/27/16 11:37 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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hmm following the law isnt always the right choice either! how do we know what's wrong or right? how can we ensure we dont make the 'wrong choices' whatever that means? (idk myself, all seems pretty grey to me.. )
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: quinn] 1
#23389585 - 06/27/16 11:41 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Empathy is a good start.
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: sudly]
#23389595 - 06/27/16 11:45 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: quinn]
#23389746 - 06/28/16 01:16 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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OrgoneConclusion said: Perhaps, but I don't see mystics adding any non-personal knowledge to the body of mankind.
Pythagoras?
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: Hippocampus]
#23389816 - 06/28/16 01:50 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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In OC's mind, if he hasn't personally read Pythagoras then Pythagoras does not exist.
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: viktor]
#23389852 - 06/28/16 02:25 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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what about Newton?
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: quinn] 1
#23390049 - 06/28/16 05:47 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I don't think a scientist has to be an atheist, but they have to be wiling to hold competing and fundamentally different ideas in his'her consciousness, really keep them in different spheres of his/her mind. I think Einstein did this, but that was in the 30's and I don't think there are too many top scientists capable of that today between childhood ingrained ideologies and the previously mentioned point about strong norms in the scientific professions.
You may or not be collaborating in your dept, besides your grad assistants, but once you send that paper into a top rated journal, you are totally looking for social approval from the top people in your field.
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: Brian Jones]
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I don't think a scientist has to be an atheist, but they have to be wiling to hold competing and fundamentally different ideas in his'her consciousness, really keep them in different spheres of his/her mind.
Exactly.
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: Hippocampus]
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OrgoneConclusion said: Perhaps, but I don't see mystics adding any non-personal knowledge to the body of mankind.
Pythagoras?
Liebniz, Kepler?
Tesla? Alternate the current much?
Faraday, that slacker!
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Re: Must a scientist be an atheist? [Re: falcon]
#23392150 - 06/28/16 08:21 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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falcon said:
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OrgoneConclusion said: Perhaps, but I don't see mystics adding any non-personal knowledge to the body of mankind.
Pythagoras?
Liebniz, Kepler?
Tesla? Alternate the current much?
Faraday, that slacker!
Isaac Newton? He had a fervent and devout religiosity, plus he was an alchemist.
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