[In response to a comment complaining about creationists trying to rewrite the definition of science]
why dont you want them to 'rewrite the definition of science.' i mean how are you so sure that science is right in the first place..
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Science... like the kind that helped to harness electricity, create vacuum tubes, transistors, resistors, microchips, memory chips and the computer you are using?
I would say Science is right, and your blindfolded view of the world is wrong.
"why dont you want them to 'rewrite the definition of science.' i mean how are you so sure that science is right in the first place."
If you don't understand the difference between the CONTENT of science and the DEFINITION of science, stop talking and start reading. Please.
Because science subjects itself to scrutiny and corrects itself when it is wrong, unlike creationism. Instead, when creationism is proven wrong - and believe me it has - it ignores it and carries on regardless.
Scientists at the LHC in CERN in Switzerland have recently discovered that the difference between science and religion is that everybody believes science, whereas religion is different for everybody, and unproveable, and undisproveable, thus, in fact, religion is not science.
Back to you, Jim.
Great quote, but I'd be wary of letting the fundies get their hands on a phrase like 'scientific religion'.
They already claim pretty much every scientific viewpoint is a religion anyway, if they found out that someone like Aasimov said that, they'd consider it proof.
BlackMageJ, perhaps I should have qualified the quote better. The quote is not a general one, but referring to a specific instance in the foundation saga when a "religion of science" really is created. <Spoiler Alert> Powerful enemies of the technically weak Foundation demand their scientific support; they give it to them in the form of a kind of incomprehensible "magic" surrounded by mysticism, ritual and notions such as the "galactic spirit". Their enemies believe themselves to have subjugated the foundation and taken their technological power for themselves - right up until the Foundation-loyal high priests cut the power and the lower castes, whose training has been entirely empirical, are utterly able to think how to take back control of the machinery they never really understood.
I am not always sure that science is right, it is constantly changing in an attempt to make itself right. On the other hand I am sure that creationism is unchanging religous dogma that fits no definition of science and is totally WRONG(just like the competing creation stories of 40 other religions).
Confused?
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