The comments on last post showed some misunderstanding, so I’d like to clear that up before moving on.
I’m not bashing science: science is a great methodology for gaining knowledge about the physical world. The problem is the impression that ditching religion has made us this enlightened and evolved people. We are inherentlly the same people who went to church 5 times a week and turned to priests for advice.
Science is really necessary – but it’s also just a tool. Since we ditched religion, people tend to turn to science for answers it was not designed for, seeing it as the path to a brighter and better future.
Also, it’s a tool wielded by humans, just like (again, a parallel) the church was. With all our biases and imperfections. As communism and religions showed us, principles tend to get diluted when people are involved. I’ll talk about that in my next post.
OK, I hope that clears that up.
I see, so your criticism goes towards how people are getting Science, not to Science itself?
indeed.
Booring, cause we then agree.
We changed religion for science, but only words changed in our brains. ‘Atheists’ don’t know what is humanism or scepticism — the closest thing we do to an experiment is to experiment marijuana.