Saturday, January 14, 2017

Science



Everyone "loves science" until it conflicts with their values. That's why the right ignores evolution and the biological evidence for homosexuality and the left ignores evidence that GMO foods are fine and any economic science.

Rachel Maddow said that the funny thing about rights is that they are rights, they aren't supposed to be voted on. Was she talking about gun rights too? Probably not, but gun rights are still rights even if you don't like them too. It's the same with science. Science doesn't care about your politics, personal views or religion. What is history is history (and history is a type of science as well) even if you don't want it to be. 

Religious people are often accused to be anti-science, but that's not true at all. I personally accept evolution and go to church on Sunday, but even if you question certain aspects of Darwinian that hardly makes you "anti-science". In fact, if you accept everything about Darwinism than you aren't asking questions-which is in itself anti-science.

When a large group of historians or scientists agree on something and you don't, it's a good idea to at the very least, re-think your views. While it's true, even a group of scientists and historians can certainly be wrong, just because they say something you might not agree with doesn't mean that you are right.

The often maligned movie "Expelled" had some things that I disagreed with and some things that I agreed with. One scientist in there had a great quote. "You can be secularly motivated and you can do good science, and you can be religiously motivated and you can do good science." Very well said. Some of the best scientists out there have been religious. 

Like religion, science taken to an extreme an dangerous and destructive too. The works of Nathaniel Hawthrone show that science unchecked by morality can be gravely dangerous. It can be, but since we live in a world where science is borderline worshipped very few people accept it. Again, just because everyone agrees with something doesn't mean it is correct. 

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