tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67289615953779855.post4454653704691009191..comments2023-05-11T15:45:31.834+02:00Comments on Project: Atlas - Ascension: Cogito et CredoAtlashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352428569359874430noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67289615953779855.post-42668102998760788512011-02-22T17:23:27.285+01:002011-02-22T17:23:27.285+01:00Nice post, Atlas.
Science is the most reliable fo...Nice post, Atlas.<br /><br />Science is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term “doubting Thomas” is a good example of the difference. In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, and in religion, having belief without evidence is consider as a virtue. The problem with this cute separation is that science has its own faith-based belief system. See, science proceeds on the assumption that nature is ordered in a rational and intelligible way. You couldn’t be a scientist if you thought the universe was a meaningless jumble of odds and ends haphazardly juxtaposed, right? Of course.<br />Every time when physicists probe to a deeper level of subatomic structure, or astronomers extend the reach of their instruments, they expect to encounter additional elegant mathematical order. And that is pure faith.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com