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Many people don't have a clue about science because it is just easier to believe nonsense stories that they learn in church. Believing isn't hard, learning to think critically is hard by comparison and that's probably why most people prefer to just believe whatever they are told - it's just easier.

SnowyOwl 8 Oct 18
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An excellent point here. We seem to be hardwired as a species for answers and certainty, and are uncomfortable with a lack of absolutes. Even though it requires credulity and unwarranted certitude, religion offers us the absolutes that we crave. When science demonstrates that, in the words of Karl Popper, β€œall knowledge is provisional,” and our understanding of the universe and the phenomena by which we are surrounded is continually evolving, we seem troubled by the lack of certainty.

And yet, once we are able to take a step back from this land of indubitableness and enter the land of reason with its scientific method, continuous change and upward spiral of knowledge, we may then, and perhaps only then, free ourselves from a universe of absolutes.

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