Jan 13 2012, 08:30 PM
Science has aspects of it that are religious. There are some things in the scientific community that are hard to challenge because they are so widely accepted, and in that way you have a case. There's tons of examples I can give you but science as a whole isn't a religion. All belief systems are fixated and can't be changed or challenged. Everything in science can be disputed and investigated.
Also adding 100 trillion tons to 400 trillions tons is unobservable to us right now but however THEORETICALLY not THEOLOGICALLY would equal 500 trillion tons. If we ran an observable scientific method test adding the numbers and it came out different then the scientific community would change whatever was challenged. Every scientist believes in uncertainty and theoretical ways of thinking so I don't understand the faith comparison. Everything we can't prove is theoretical and is shaped by the proven laws of the universe, this goes for black holes, the big bang, etc...
My way of thinking is that everything is from perspective. I've personally never seen an elephant in my life so therefore they are only a theoretical existence to me. To me an elephant is in the same ball park as a unicorn. Only in this case you can argue faith is involved because I have faith in another persons experience. So l come to the conclusion that science can be worshiped as a religion (like anything else can be worshiped as a religion) but it wasn't created as a religion.
Also adding 100 trillion tons to 400 trillions tons is unobservable to us right now but however THEORETICALLY not THEOLOGICALLY would equal 500 trillion tons. If we ran an observable scientific method test adding the numbers and it came out different then the scientific community would change whatever was challenged. Every scientist believes in uncertainty and theoretical ways of thinking so I don't understand the faith comparison. Everything we can't prove is theoretical and is shaped by the proven laws of the universe, this goes for black holes, the big bang, etc...
My way of thinking is that everything is from perspective. I've personally never seen an elephant in my life so therefore they are only a theoretical existence to me. To me an elephant is in the same ball park as a unicorn. Only in this case you can argue faith is involved because I have faith in another persons experience. So l come to the conclusion that science can be worshiped as a religion (like anything else can be worshiped as a religion) but it wasn't created as a religion.