ABC2019 »01/03/21, 07:31
GuyGadeboisLeRetour wrote:
It's not like there are any good believing scientists, no you think ...
ABC2019:
which proves that being a good scientist is not a universal quality which applies to everything one does, but simply that in some areas one can have had a correct reasoning, and in others completely delusional. The authority argument "you are not going to question what the professor thingy says, who has so many publications to his credit and such a prestigious post" is worthless.
You should remember this for the epidemiology, and Izzy should remember it for the climate.
This documentary is rather interesting, even if it is obviously oriented, but can it be otherwise?
Already, and even if this has only been mentioned superficially: Most of our current materialist sciences, such as medicine, have been developed by various “religious” currents whether coming from the East or the Middle East. The main scientists who developed OUR hard sciences in the West were themselves believers like Newton the father of modern science, Einstein himself but with a vision of god astrophysicist like Pastor, great Catholic, with a vision of a microbial god, etc ... We can also suppose that all scientists were and still are believers (differently according to individuals and their culture) or rather spiritualists aware or unconscious of this reality.
Moreover, the expression, "I believe" so widely used by all clearly underlines this evidence.
Now, religion! what is it actually? Whether in Latin
religare(which connects) or in Greek
therapeia which means to treat as in Hebrew where it is the practice with other humans which is the foundation of "religion". Nothing really bad about it, quite the contrary.
But it is criticized, and often with good reason, for having deviated from its original meaning, like, unfortunately, most human systems.
As a system, metaphorically, the automobile (all current means of movement for that matter) is in principle a form of idealization of the means of movement by providing more than our only limited physical means. But there are also the disadvantages that this produces; noise, pollution, various accidents, dependence on the system, destruction of the environment. However, despite its many indisputable drawbacks, our contemporaries continue to use it for its contributions considered to be positive. Ditto for the train, the plane, the boat, there is no ideal system.
Clearly, religions are means of ...., supports intended to help individuals in their material and spiritual life, despite all its faults and exaggerations. Hence the high number of these as there is a high number of manufacturers of transport vehicles to go from point A or point B.
Thus atheism, whose behavioral characteristics are very close to their opponents, is also a religion, of opposition to others (those which preceded it), like replacing a Renault, by a Peugeot or a Mercedes, which changes the forms, but not the substance.
NB: There is no more Christian medicine than atheist medicine, there is medicine or not!
PS:
the trial of Galileo is the symbol of the alleged refusal by the church of scientific progress (at 2'00 '') or religious dogmatism opposing the truth.
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré