Today's Question For Atheists
Since you believe there to be no God/gods how would you answer the question of the existence of Lords. Are there any Lords?
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Really · 80-89, M
'Science' doesn't 'do' anything.
People, and groups of people calling themselves scientists, do things. They refer to some of those things (or the way they do them) as 'science'; so now they call themselves scientists, and whatever they do or say they can refer to as 'science'. Some even go so far as to treat the word 'science' as if it were a person or a set of rules to live by: "science say this", "science means that" "science dictates .. something else".
Semantic nonsense.
This is not to deny that there are some methods we can call scientific (setting aside for the moment the many different ways people try to limit and define that). But ordinary folks use such processes and ways of thinking in their everyday lives without referring to them as science, or to themselves as scientists.
Sadly there's much that I believe to be high flown nonsense spoken by self-styled scientists.
People, and groups of people calling themselves scientists, do things. They refer to some of those things (or the way they do them) as 'science'; so now they call themselves scientists, and whatever they do or say they can refer to as 'science'. Some even go so far as to treat the word 'science' as if it were a person or a set of rules to live by: "science say this", "science means that" "science dictates .. something else".
Semantic nonsense.
This is not to deny that there are some methods we can call scientific (setting aside for the moment the many different ways people try to limit and define that). But ordinary folks use such processes and ways of thinking in their everyday lives without referring to them as science, or to themselves as scientists.
Sadly there's much that I believe to be high flown nonsense spoken by self-styled scientists.
AkioTsukino · M
@Really [quote]'Science' doesn't 'do' anything.[/quote]
Yes! Very important. I don't know if this was responding to me because I will often do that as well. Suggest science is some sort of sentient entity. Science, religion, atheism.
Yes! Very important. I don't know if this was responding to me because I will often do that as well. Suggest science is some sort of sentient entity. Science, religion, atheism.
Really · 80-89, M
@AkioTsukino I wasn't directing my 'science' comments at you; just addressing the forum in general, and in particular the folks who respond to nearly everything as if it was about science or scientists. I see that as a kind of special pleading; using those words to imply some sort of superior wisdom.
AkioTsukino · M
@Really It could have been even if it wasn't. I was just saying I sometimes do that. Probably have in the last threads I've posted in.
Really · 80-89, M
@AkioTsukino I think we all do that in our various ways. Thanks for the mea culpa.✌️