Comment on I believe science but I don't understand science. Does that make me religious?
oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 8 months ago
The process by which scientific knowledge is discovered reliably leads to truth. The process by which religions form doesn’t
dope@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Science is the process by which scientific knowledge is discovered? That’s a tight little loop.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Here’s the thing about science: If you had the ability to purge all knowledge of all science, written, in people’s memories, etc. then over time we woul relearn it all pretty much exactly the same. It may take centuries, and what we know today as Pythagoras’ Theorem or Einstein’s theory of relativity would likely have different names for them. But the underlying science behind them will be 100% identical once they are “re”-discovered. Everything we know today about math, physics, electronics, etc. will eventually be relearned.
The same can’t be said for any religion. Wipe out ALL knowledge of all religions and new ones will spring up with completely new stories to try to explain beliefs to groups of people.
oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 8 months ago
The scientific process reliably leads to truth. Charismatic people making shit up and/or hallucinating doesn’t reliably lead to truth.