Why do i believe in science?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.True science is not a belief system, it is an evidence based system of repeatable and observable results that are consistently verifiable, there is no belief at all. Belief is for the unknowable (presently) and the unexplainable (presently), that's not science at all. I accept science, I trust science and I question science because science is supposed to make us ask questions and find verifiable answers, that's what the scientific method is all about - this is Science 101.
Surfpirate
Level 9
May 23, 2019
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I don’t believe in science. I don’t believe in anything. The answers given by science are limited and superficial and do not address the deep questions of existence. Science is a great boon for mankind but has no role as a belief system.
There are some very intriguing ideas in religion and metaphysics, but there’s nothing there deserving of hard belief. I look on metaphysics as art—no belief is required.
WilliamFleming
Level 8
May 23, 2019
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Science has given answers to all things necessary. If you want to know more, the answers are certainly not in the Bible. The answer is more science. Religion is brain wash. Nothing is true. Jesus is a fake story. Go to Disneyland instead.
@St-Sinner Science has given answers but those answers don’t satisfy. Metaphysics might not be necessary but neither is art, music, cinema, etc. yet we benefit from those things.
Hindu scriptures are good sources for intuitive metaphysical insights. I’m not talking about beliefs. I am talking about awareness, appreciation and reverence.
Why do you want to believe stuff. Science is not a belief system. Study science deeply enough and you’ll be led straight into the world of metaphysics.
Albert Einstein:
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.
I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
"I'm not an atheist, and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations."
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People often think of science as "dependable magic", which is why the phrase "believe in science" pops up.
The scientific method reveals how things work in verifiable, reproducible, falsifiable, and predictive ways, all of which result in stable, useful results that all interconnect and "are what they are", as it were.
But in the everyday world, people think not in terms of HOW things work, but WHY they work, which leads to the erroneous thinking that science has nothing to do with everyday lives, that conclusions can be picked out of the air with no relation to reality, and that science can be whatever we want it to be in the same way magic in a story can.
greyeyed123
Level 7
May 23, 2019
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Very good.
I don't think it is linguistically correct to "believe in science". What is correct is to "believe in the scientific method". Religious people try to characterize "Science" as a religion, which can be believed in or not.
BitFlipper
Level 8
May 23, 2019
4
I've seen convincing physical evidence from different techniques and sources backed by years and years of corroborating evidence that have convinced me that their stories are false and have given logical explanations for why things happen or explanations as to why we don't know yet.
MsAl
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May 23, 2019
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