I grew up in Liberal MA where the school systems regularly pointed out the wisdom of Galileo the great scientist. He didn’t accept the official thinking. He asked questions. He figured out that the earth wasn’t the center of the universe (actually, he was just repeating Copernicus’s discovery). Galileo, we were told, was persecuted by the authorites who didn’t like new ideas or original thought. The authorities pushed religion and denigrated science. Such backward people!
Today, science means you don’t ask questions, you maintain faith in the authorities, and you support the persecution of anyone with new ideas.
It seems like deja vu all over again!
ClearCase_guy wrote:
“Today, science means you don’t ask questions, you maintain faith in the authorities, and you support the persecution of anyone with new ideas.”
And by doing so, they have created a new religion.
Today far too many people have substituted faith in science for faith in God.
I know people who when scientists say….. even if it’s laden with if, should, might, probably, likely, etc, they swallow it as if it’s written in stone and handed down from Mt Sinai.