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To: BroJoeK

Point is, science is a set of beliefs, processed in the brain by scientists and others in the same way religious beliefs are processed.


61 posted on 09/30/2014 7:10:29 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they believed not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith

Reasonisfaith: “Point is, science is a set of beliefs, processed in the brain by scientists and others in the same way religious beliefs are processed.”

Not the same thing.
There’s a huge difference between saying, “I believe in the supernatural power of God” versus “I believe the sky is naturally blue”.
Even when we say something like, “I believe that germs can cause disease”, speaking of something most people never see, yet still has been reported to us as a reliable, often confirmed physical fact.
So that is quite different from any supernatural beliefs we might hold.

Further, scientific theories, by their nature are never fully “proved”, only confirmed, and are ALWAYS subject to falsification by new data or ideas.
This is vastly different from revealed religious beliefs, intended to be fixed forever.


67 posted on 10/01/2014 9:00:38 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective..)
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