I DO believe this: to talk incessantly about something is to give it life, in this case totally UNDESERVED life. To me, agnosticism means TOTAL rejection of all belief systems, except science. If reincarnation can be scientifically validated, it's close. But no God involved. I feel like I've been REALLY "born again" into the vastness and awesome mystery of the known Universe. I'm free, within obvious boundaries, to conduct my life as I see fit. If I was brought up in an agnostic household, my moral values would be intact. All that upbringing bought me was unwarranted guilt and fear (okay granted, along with good values and a liberal education, despite my Catholic mother's best efforts to make me a priest). I feel like I've been let out of a cage, and given a candy store full of goodies which, magically, don't make me fat or rot my teeth. ALL belief systems are bullshit, period.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I think that the only way you can believe in science is in the sense that you believe that the scientific method is a valid approach to discovering empirical reality. Beyond that I don't believe in the theory of evolution. I don't believe in the theory of gravity. I don't believe in thermodynamics. I don't believe in electromagnetism. I don't believe in trigonometry. Perhaps, the biggest mistake of recent times is to make a religion out of science and a science out of religion. Both get cheapened and undermined in the process.
Heraclitus
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Mar 16, 2019
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I would quibble with you in your assertion that science is or requires a belief system. Science is the antithesis of belief. Science is all about facts, data, observation, measurement, inference, logic, etc. There is no underlying belief system.
DaveS002
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Mar 16, 2019
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It is a fact that you need to believe in science. So many people do not and indeed hate it . I have set myself the task of making people like it. They will not believe in it until they have personally used it to improve their own life. I have started by analysing and revising the processes of science some of which you mention. Then it has to simplified and talked about collectively as a well tried and adaptible group of processes.
Please follow my progress on the Science teachers Group of this site.
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