• demlet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I definitely think there’s a strain of dogmatism in science. We need to be careful. Science is not the Truth, it’s a method for producing accurate predictions. We accumulate evidence until the predictions seem overwhelmingly likely, or not. At no point have we proven that things might not be completely different from what we imagine them to be, or that they won’t change. Science isn’t Truth, it’s just a method of finding the best answer up to that point.

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      1 year ago

      And religion is not only a truth, it’s not a method of finding the truth either.

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      Careful. Science is not the Truth, it’s a method for producing accurate predictions. We accumulate evidence until the predictions seem overwhelmingly likely, or not. At no point have we proven that things might not be completely different from what we imagine them to be, or that they won’t change. Science isn’t Truth, it’s just a method of finding the best answer up to that point.

      Listen to the mainstream, not the mediastreams, don’t listen to the jackasses spewing transdimensional micro-wormholes – yet. There’s mystery in science, but that’s literally how we find the next-big-thing. When there’s mystery in religion, you are supposed to ignore it.