Many rationalists glorify science as something transcending blind&bizarre faith but I state that science is a blind faith too.Please give feedback after you read my post and debate logically.No rants and rhetorics please.
http://listlessfantasies.blogspot.in/2014/03/science-is-blind-faith-face-truth.html
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No. Science and logic places faith in observable evidence. Blind faith would be without oservable evidence. Although, you wouldn't be incorrect to say that it does rely on some degree of faith that the evidence is correct. Science is always correcting itself, as we know what was once scientific fact can later become proven wrong. Neither science nor religious faith can explain everything. I believe when taken in there proper contexts they do not conflict but complement each other if you're open enough to accept both, along with there limitations.
Outahere
No, I do not agree. Science is no more than a discipline and repeatable methodology by which we bring objective understanding to everything around us. It is not an end in itself. The only act of faith involved comes down to the acceptance that your kilogram is the same as my kilogram or that your litre is the same as my litre .. and such like. If in doubt, there is a physical standard that exists so consensus can be objectively maintained.
Where conclusions are drawn from scientific enquiry, they are evidence based.
Science is a means to an end, not an end in itself. As scientific methodology changes, so the consensus interpretation of the results may change. The worst thing we could do is to stop asking questions or to stop challenging received wisdom.
nameless
Many rationalists glorify science as something transcending blind&bizarre faith but I state that science is a blind faith too.Please give feedback after you read my post
~~~ The very fact that your sweaty fingers are typing on this keyboard, in front of this monitor, running with this computer, is evidence aplenty for some amount of 'faith' in science. This proof in in the pudding!!
Anyone can buy one, heft it, tap it.. real, hard, evidence!
And it works, most of the time, but always improving (more evidence of the efficacy of science)!
Knowing this, I need not listen to any forthcoming hypocrisy and foolishness.
You hold the apple in your hand and yet deny it... you do not sound rational.
I do like the warning in the name of your site; "listless fantasies".
You'll not be sharing your's with me tonight...
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Science is an admirable pursuit but its selective rejection of that which it cannot explain or measure is an extremely arrogant form of anthropocentricity.
I have witnessed the 'impossible' on many occasions. So what am I, a liar, a fool, a madman ?
Until Science is prepared to accept that which it can never explain as relevant phenomena it is no more than an expression of ego and thereby not worthy of claiming to hold a monopoly on ultimate truth.
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pasquale garonfolo
Science is the great will and the capability to see and the struggle for seeing. Science is vision. Vision is theory and theory is reflected vision. Science is not a blind faith when science is inclined to detect and to see and to scan the world and to try to improve for a better life of you and of the others that are interested in the good harmony of life of presence of belonging and of generously sharing the world with you.
Faith does not share, faith wants to monopolize, faith wants to impose the one way, to decide how you should behave and how you should think. Faith wants you to obey to the high holy most often parasitical deputies of your own God on this Earth. Faith wants that you go the one dogmatic way that you must accept or that is imposed on you. Faith may want to impose material and spiritual blinkers so that you only shall see what the faith does want you to see.