viktor said:

Icelander said:

There will come a time, I think, when the scientific method itself is as dated and functionally irrelevant as theistic traditions.

You've got to be kidding.  That method has been around since early man and is the only thing that has likely got us this far.

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Science may have moved us somewhere, but wouldn't you need to know where we were and to where we were meant to be going before you could judge whether it had moved us forwards or backwards?

My favourite thing about the scientific method is that it can be used to weigh the merit in the claims of those who act as if they know how people ought to live. Demanding some proof for the question "Where is your God?" meant a big change in the nature of the human experience.

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Lingabhakt said:

Sometimes conversations on here seem like what my cats must be talking about when they're looking at me weird. Cat 1: "Why do they use those stupid metal things to eat?" Cat 2: "It must some ritual tool to fend off the evil Hairball, who is ever in conflict with the mighty Meow-who-bats-at-string."  Cat 1: "Do you think it works?" Cat 2: "I've never seen them get a hairball." Cat 1: "So why don't they make some we can use?" Cat 2: "They must want us to hack up hairballs for them." Cat 1: "So let's go hack one on their pillow." Cat 2: "Let's!"

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Maybe lower the dosage of all those drugs you're taking