On 06 Dec 2013, at 20:16, meekerdb wrote:
On 12/6/2013 7:27 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]>
wrote:
2013/12/5 Jason Resch <[email protected]>
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux
<[email protected]> wrote:
A religion is based on dogma, science is not, hence science is not
a religion.
Some religions may be, that doesn't mean they all are, however.
How do you relate science to beliefs about the world and reality?
Would you say science the collection of those beliefs, or the
method for developing the beliefs?
Science is a way to discover the world, nothing is certain, what
you believe now may be shown wrong tomorrow... that's not the case
with religion...
So if science is the way, the way to what? Where do the beliefs
belong?
I would say a more correct definition of religion is a collection
if beliefs, regardless of how you got them.
Another attempt to sweep everybody into the religion bin.
Some may rely on dogmas if old books, others on newer books and
articles, but either method, science or stake dogmas can
provide the basis of one's world view.
Science never provides the final answer, and so to operate in this
world we must act in our own private beliefs.
And religion is always ready to provide a final answer, one never to
be questioned,
And that is bad, right, but that will continue as long as you forbid
to scientist to take a look on the spiritual questions.
because if it's the right answer then it must always have been right.
That is just my take according to my own definitions. You may
define religion as dogma and come to different cinclusions.
I take 'religion' to mean what people refer to when they say they
belong to a religion.
Brent
"Atheist n A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe
things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived
himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others."
Again, that is agnosticism, not atheism.
Bruno
--- Chaz Bufe
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