Tuesday, September 20, 2005
If Science were a Religion
If science were a religion, how come science must only have faith in the existence of doubt? If doubt never existed, science could not have been born. Indeed, if science were a religion, it is the religion of skepticism. In the meantime, the track record of religion looks pretty awful. We see religion still encouraging ignorance, superstition, and the rigidity of stupidity. Humanity might have been better off without religion as religion is only a pie in sky by and by, and a rotten pie at that and feeds nothing but illusions, if not delusions. Poch Suzara
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My response to the item "Changing the Church" would do just as well here.
Nevertheless, I must add that science itself rests on basic premises that are akin to religious faith. One of these premises is the assumption that there is order in the cosmos that can be understood by the human mind and consequently could also be manipulated by human intervention. No one can actually prove this but I like to believe it.
I would like to live long enough to see scientists put the latest findings on subatomic particles to practical use. Star Trek's teletransporter (earlier also shown in the classic sci-fi horror movie The Fly with Vincent Price in the '50s) is one of them. Also, quantum physicists seriously discuss the possibility of altering the atomic composition of objects by command. For example, I like to cook so in the putative future discussed by these scientists, my kitchen would be almost bare. I would tell a dish rack to become a microwave, a bowl to become a plate and so on. Pretty neat, huh?
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