I don’t observe much in the way of “science denial”. I see rejection of political stunts being passed off as science.
I don’t think so.....we live in a world dominated by ignorance & stupidity...
Boys can be girls, girls can be boys, human fetus is not alive.
Science, as we know it today, was born out of a belief that a rational God would create a rational world, and that his creatures – being rational – could understand it. Before the sixteenth century, philosophers believed that a fact was real knowledge if enough people had a strong belief in it . Thus “truth” was based upon a consensus among believers. But science requires that we can think rationally, and that results should be reported honestly .
“The philosophy of experimental science … began its discoveries and made use of its methods in the faith, not the knowledge, that it was dealing with a rational universe controlled by a creator who did not act upon whim nor interfere with the forces He had set in operation… It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science, which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its origins to an act of faith that the universe can be rationally interpreted, and that science today is sustained by that assumption. ”
Sorry; but I find standards of evidence fascinating. Logic rocks my socks.
Science is only one mental model to help humans think accurately.
If you only have one mental model, you’re limited and will make poor decisions.
This simple statement is the key to science:
If it (a theory) disagrees with experiment, then it’s WRONG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw
The Church regarded science and the scientific method as the means by which the secrets of God might be known. But of course Islam was all scienced up too…you know because diversity.