Quote from: af_newbie on March 08, 2020, 07:31:55 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on March 08, 2020, 04:18:00 AM

Quote from: af_newbie on March 07, 2020, 03:20:57 AM

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Science is not a belief system. Rupert needs to go back to school.

yeah actually it is.

basically any system

atheist
religious
scientific

Are all belief systems.

Science does require repeatable independent experiments 🧫.

But still involves belief that repeatable independent experiments are not a simple trick done by a god or gods.

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With that kind of thinking we would still be living in caves, wet, hungry and waiting for Gods of light, fire, and rain to do stuff for us.

Repeatable independent experiments are just that, a reliable way to validate results.

If you think they are just a trick "done by god or gods", you need to buy a clue.

The scientific method is the best epistemic tool we have. It is not a belief system.

When people say that they "believe in science" what they are really mean that they trust results produced by science.
Others, who have no idea what science is, immediately claim that it is a belief system because some people say that
they "believe in science".

By this reasoning, you can call 2+2=4 (in base of 10) equation a "belief system".

Oh, blab. Here you go again, thinking that 2+2=4, when there isn't any such thing as 2. Everything is different. Nothing is the same. There aren't any two things, because everything is different. It's always 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1... on to as far as you want to go with it. That's why ultra complex math fails. Math differences start to break down complexity that requires that there aren't any differences.

Cool