🔬 Science vs. 🌱 Religion. Which one do you think is more important in people's lives.
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BlueVeins · 22-25
Definitely science, lmao. Whenever a scientific truth is found that contradicts religion, it's first rejected as heresey until the evidence becomes too much to ignore, at which point the religious texts are simply reinterpreted to claim that they [i]always[/i] accepted the scientific reality. Religion's habit of eventually conceding to overwhelming evidence -- while pretending it never rejected it -- is where the idea that religion & science are compatible comes from.
Life without science is almost unrecognizable to us; it shapes the physical reality we live in and the basic structure of our lives. Religion, by contrast, impacts us in both positive and negative ways [i]psychologically and socially[/i], but it has relatively little ability to re-write the rules of survival and prosperity. Someone living in in the US today has much more in common with a Saudi citizen than they do with a Christian from the Byzantine Empire.
Life without science is almost unrecognizable to us; it shapes the physical reality we live in and the basic structure of our lives. Religion, by contrast, impacts us in both positive and negative ways [i]psychologically and socially[/i], but it has relatively little ability to re-write the rules of survival and prosperity. Someone living in in the US today has much more in common with a Saudi citizen than they do with a Christian from the Byzantine Empire.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@BlueVeins
Smallpox killed as many as 300 million people in the first part of the twentieth century (far more than in all wars combined)... eradicated from the planet.
Tuberculosis infected 70–90 percent of all urban residents in the nineteenth century... almost eradicated.
Vaccines now prevent diseases that once infected, crippled, or killed millions... polio, measles, and pertussis..
None of that...[b]none![/b]... came about by praying to gods and waving around religious symbols.
In the last one hundred years, an average yield of corn more than quadrupled from about 32 to 145 bushels per acre. Wheat, rice, potatoes, etc., have seen the same increases. This now feeds a population that is four times larger, but uses less than 2% of the national labour force compared to more than 40% a century ago.
None of that...[b]none![/b]... came about by praying to gods and waving around religious symbols.
Smallpox killed as many as 300 million people in the first part of the twentieth century (far more than in all wars combined)... eradicated from the planet.
Tuberculosis infected 70–90 percent of all urban residents in the nineteenth century... almost eradicated.
Vaccines now prevent diseases that once infected, crippled, or killed millions... polio, measles, and pertussis..
None of that...[b]none![/b]... came about by praying to gods and waving around religious symbols.
In the last one hundred years, an average yield of corn more than quadrupled from about 32 to 145 bushels per acre. Wheat, rice, potatoes, etc., have seen the same increases. This now feeds a population that is four times larger, but uses less than 2% of the national labour force compared to more than 40% a century ago.
None of that...[b]none![/b]... came about by praying to gods and waving around religious symbols.
