Science and Religion

My point was simple:

analysis is not a religion. It does not promise things that are unknowable.
Religion may be about ethics and morality. (Sweeping statement)

anyhow, Science is never 'right', but it eternally questions itself. One
practices science, but permits itself to be proved wrong aby another bit of
science.

Lots of science however comes under the umbrella of:

just because they could but didn't stop to think that they should...

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> Hello Mark!
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Mark Gould wrote:

> My point was simple:
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> analysis is not a religion.

To have faith in the method of analysis is a myth. Myth does not mean that something is untrue.

> It does not promise things that are unknowable.

Religion does not have to promise anything- it might be a cosmological description

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> Religion may be about ethics and morality. (Sweeping statement)

I agree. But for myself ethics is best dealt with by philosophy.

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> anyhow, Science is never 'right', but it eternally questions itself. One
> practices science, but permits itself to be proved wrong aby another bit of
> science.

An so it believes if it continually analyses data it will come to the truth. This is a belief even
if it is the most successful. To look upon the unknown even with the discipline of analysis one is
always tainted by subconscious contents and will always be so. Often these contents lead analysis
down blind alleys for years , decades , maybe even hundred of years.

And because we seem to put our faith in it as it leads us down these blind alleys doesn't mean it
is bad or that i have a better solution. It is important to remember that to the greeks Apollo and
Dionysis were brothers that got along we have not developed a system which can

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> Lots of science however comes under the umbrella of:
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> just because they could but didn't stop to think that they should...

A big problem is that science now develops in unbalanced ways in that economic concerns will force
one aspect to be highly developed awhile close by questions are left untouched as they have no
economic implications. Such a system will lead to a distorted view of truth.

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