Science vs. Belief
Added 2024-04-28 20:57:43 +0000 UTCThere used to be a time when most people were content to just admit that they did not understand something, but those days are over. Today everybody understands everything, and everyone is the expert. Enjoy!!!!
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So far those measurements have only confirmed relativistic physics. Newtonian physics isn't so much wrong as it is incomplete. And that works peachy for most things.
Bob Darlington
2024-05-03 11:56:11 +0000 UTCThe idea that "We don't need qualified people to write entries into a Encyclopedia - anyone can!" exemplified by, of course, Wikipedia, is at the heart of the problem. This concept overextends democracy into media and education -- casually dismissing credentialed education and documented knowledge as a drain on the instant spreading of information.
Brian Arbenz
2024-04-29 20:05:40 +0000 UTCI try to never disagree with stupid people because they are way better at being stupid than I am. Fran, you are the measure of countenance and you are full of insight. You are my go to gal when I can't stand myself.
Benoit Renault
2024-04-29 19:41:16 +0000 UTCIt is very true that everything is always up for review. Newton's law of gravity can predict the position of a spacecraft right out to the edge of the solar system, but it breaks down at high gravity and high energy. For example It can't predict the position of Mercury accurately, for that you need Einstein's general theory of relativity. And I would bet that at some point measurements will be made which disagree with Einstein. It doesn't mean Newton and Einstein were wrong, just that their ideas are approximations of something deeper, just how deep though, I don't think anyone knows.
David Peaker
2024-04-29 19:27:27 +0000 UTCyep.
Fran Blanche
2024-04-29 18:52:11 +0000 UTCI'm not even going there.
Fran Blanche
2024-04-29 18:51:48 +0000 UTCMy point is that in the past those who could not understand something would usually accept the idea that there were in fact people who did understand.
Fran Blanche
2024-04-29 18:50:11 +0000 UTCMy problem with the montra, trust science, is that usually the trust science people are unwilling to acknowledge that reasonable people can agree on the same facts and come to different conclusions. Science can't tell us what we should or shouldn't do, only how to measure truth. What we do with that knowledge is a policy choice. Believing in a flat earth is dumb, because it disagrees with the facts, but deciding if pluto is a planet or not, is just a policy preference for a specific taxonomy. Science is a human endeavor, and it will never not be messy or continuous.
Strawberry Puptart
2024-04-29 02:30:32 +0000 UTCI wish doubt was more culturally embedded. If you want something to be true and also you think it maybe ‘is’ true, then be suspicious of yourself. Ideologies are just groups of people who want something to be true, and can’t separate emotions from facts or speculations. There’s nothing wrong with imagination and hope, just label it correctly!
Chris Cox
2024-04-28 23:30:47 +0000 UTCYou're missing all the fun on Twitter today, because Joe Rogan just had on Bart Sibrel of the fake moon landing fame. Here we go again...
EEVblog
2024-04-28 23:25:36 +0000 UTCNo Vacuum - it is just a lack of pressure. Also, there is no cold - it's just a lack of heat. A refrigerator, freezer A/C unit work by removing heat not by producing cold.
Donald J Arndt
2024-04-28 23:18:17 +0000 UTCIt seems rare that one does not encounter, every day, these people with their belief systems, introduced, no matter how tangentially, into discussions. I'm of some age now, but a day doesn't pass for me without learning something.
Bob Pockney
2024-04-28 21:50:48 +0000 UTCI live in a weird town surrounded by people with Ph.D.s and an enormous number of places of worship. One of my good friends teaches world religions at a local church, and he was the PI for ChemCam that's on Mars. It's interesting when you have scientists that are super good at science, and yet hold beliefs about things that require you to set aside the scientific method. I don't get it, but it's interesting.
Bob Darlington
2024-04-28 21:39:28 +0000 UTCBelief works and we cannot help ourselves not to do it. It is more important HOW you believe than what you believe in. How you believe determines who you are. Science has been my friend and breadwinner and has never let me down like belief has. Science has never made me feel like the god that belief awakens. That's why I'm so careful believing. Science is conventional. Intelligent belief can put a face on the void.
Benoit Renault
2024-04-28 21:38:19 +0000 UTCThinking that one knows everything is the most self-conceited thing I can think of... As Socrates said, "I know that I know nothing" - and this opens up the possibility to learn, and acceptance of the fact that one is wrong in many places. Definitely not what the ego wants though.
Keri Szafir
2024-04-28 21:14:58 +0000 UTC
