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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

Tim Minchin, "Storm".

rcandlish 7 Sep 18
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I love Tom Minchin. He's rude, but somehow still polite in so doing, most of the time.

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just a little quibble, and that is that science hasn't got any views. science is a study. scientists change their views, not science. scientists change them based on observation, and testing, and retesting. that's a good thing. faith is as you say.

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It is as you say. We have a tendency to personify concepts - a form of poetic lazy-speak.

@rcandlish we do! being an ex-english teacher and magazine editor, and still being a writer, i find things like that jump out at me, which makes me an occasional pain in the butt. i yell at the tv a lot.

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However people are willing to follow blindly for whatever reason and that I find to be unacceptable.

They will only do this while it is socially acceptable to do so. The concept of God is becoming more and more like an old toothpaste tube, squeezed beyond use.

@rcandlish last time i looked it was going strong, and worse, getting stronger and more obnoxious and invasive.

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@genessa It always seems darkest just before the dawn. The study of the Genome has put pay to the old fabrication that God made Man as a special creation in his own image, and the evidence will continue to build and build. I sense a distant rumbling, an avalanche of Fact burying all such dishonest fictions. By the end of this century those of a religious bent will be looked upon as troglodytes (and not in a Platonic sense!) For the moment the slow drift towards secularism continues.

@rcandlish i wish i shared your optimism.

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Of course!

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