RE: Do You Believe in Science? 🔭
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“Do you believe in science?”
Science is not supposed to be an object of faith. I use science as a method of investigation, testing, falsification, prediction, and refinement. The moment someone says “trust the science” as an unquestionable doctrine, they’ve shifted from science into authority and belief.
To believe is have faith because there's uncertainty. To know wouldn't require belief.
Knowledge itself may still be provisional, but belief begins where verification ends.
Science is extremely powerful at measuring mechanisms. It is far weaker at answering questions of meaning, value, consciousness, beauty, purpose, or moral direction.
That's my two cents anyways.
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No it's absolutely not, I agree. But people pitch it as such, as if 'belief' and 'faith' draw a line in the sand. In this instance, I would say 'belief' is 'accept as truth', and even that gets fuzzy as people tend to now see story and emotional experience as also a kind of truth.
Yes. And this current world seems to expect us to outline where we stand on those issues, constantly, and even with tested, measured outcomes, we are expected to also have a 'feeling' about this, to back up 'beliefs', if this makes sense. Science does get political, even if we do not wish it to be.
It can answer questions about those things, however, disassembling the why we, for example, experience prejudice (both neg/pos) or other biological imperatives we accept as a greater truth or moral imperative.
I agree! Thank you for your time.
Love your user name by the way
Thank you.
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