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When people appeal to science as if it were a god
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2016-12-11 at 4:18 PM UTCI always see douches around school with shirts like "Science doesn't care what you believe." While they're technically not wrong, they misinterpret what science is. Science is not a dogmatic set of beliefs with 10 commandments that say "god isn't real, the world is round, etc etc." Those things may be true, but science is just a process that tests hypothesis. It has no beliefs. Although unlikely, for all we know, the laws of the universe could be completely upturned tomorrow. Then all those beliefs they had would go under.
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2016-12-11 at 4:31 PM UTCand what exactly is your point, OP? we all know that falsifiability is the best demarcation criterion to distinguish science from metaphysics since popper's theory of epistemology, and the views on science of few wee lads are not representative of the academia's stances & state of the art researches
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2016-12-11 at 4:34 PM UTCI don't really know. I guess it just bugs me that they act all smug because they think of themselves as sheldon from big bang theory or something. It's more about how I just don't like those people than any sort of commentary on what criteria we should use to decide if something is true or not.
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2016-12-11 at 4:38 PM UTC
Originally posted by greenplastic I don't really know. I guess it just bugs me that they act all smug because they think of themselves as sheldon from big bang theory or something. It's more about how I just don't like those people than any sort of commentary on what criteria we should use to decide if something is true or not.
tl;dr: genocide the normies -
2016-12-11 at 4:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by antinatalism tl;dr: genocide the normies
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2016-12-11 at 4:47 PM UTCWhen people to appeal to god as if it were a god.
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2016-12-11 at 4:49 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ When people to appeal to god as if it were a god.
when u 10 minute in2 netflix n chil n he pulls this look
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2016-12-11 at 4:54 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ When people to appeal to god as if it were a god.
> kurrent year
> not worshipping the kek -
2016-12-11 at 5:03 PM UTC
Originally posted by antinatalism > kurrent year
> not worshipping the kek
Praise be to Kek, Lord of Chaos, keeper of the primordial lulz. -
2016-12-11 at 5:13 PM UTCOh guise stahp being all mememememe with me tee-hee
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2016-12-11 at 5:18 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie Praise be to Kek, Lord of Chaos, keeper of the primordial lulz.
SHADILAY -
2016-12-11 at 5:21 PM UTC
Originally posted by antinatalism SHADILAY
Meme magic is real. -
2016-12-11 at 5:51 PM UTC
Originally posted by greenplastic I always see douches around school with shirts like "Science doesn't care what you believe." While they're technically not wrong, they misinterpret what science is. Science is not a dogmatic set of beliefs with 10 commandments that say "god isn't real, the world is round, etc etc." Those things may be true, but science is just a process that tests hypothesis. It has no beliefs. Although unlikely, for all we know, the laws of the universe could be completely upturned tomorrow. Then all those beliefs they had would go under.
wow thats a pretty nerdy kind of shirt to wear lol.
And If say shiva the destroyer came out of a CERN portal... then well I guess science would care... lol
Science and "beliefs" have almost always gone hand and hand
THomas Eddison the dude who invented the light bulb also invented the "ghost phone" because he believed everything is energy vibrations and when you die you are that energy and can be picked up through electronic devices.
Now today we have more advanced ghost phones.
christopher columbus believed the world wasn't flat and it was infact round. Now that's commonly accept in the science community. -
2016-12-11 at 6 PM UTC
Originally posted by Bill Krozby wow thats a pretty nerdy kind of shirt to wear lol.
And If say shiva the destroyer came out of a CERN portal… then well I guess science would care… lol
Science and "beliefs" have almost always gone hand and hand
THomas Eddison the dude who invented the light bulb also invented the "ghost phone" because he believed everything is energy vibrations and when you die you are that energy and can be picked up through electronic devices.
Now today we have more advanced ghost phones.
christopher columbus believed the world wasn't flat and it was infact round. Now that's commonly accept in the science community.
I'm pretty sure the world is round breh
but yea my school is super fuckin nerdy -
2016-12-11 at 6:09 PM UTC
Originally posted by greenplastic "Science doesn't care what you believe."
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"science is just a process that tests hypothesis. It has no beliefs."
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2016-12-11 at 6:14 PM UTCJust sounds like they really like science and are trying to be pretentious about it. Just like the die-hard Christians who wear Jesus propaganda and take every opportunity they can to share the gospel. I was like that for a while, both sides of the spectrum quite honestly. When I was ultra anti-Christianity I wore Jesus shirts ironically and took any chance I could to share how stupid I thought it was. I still think it's stupid but I don't lash into believers like I used to. I get why people believe in religion; it's not complicated. Those I object to are those that feel high and mighty and accept their beliefs as a sort of science and want to bring into every discussion. Oh and 'so sad, thoughts and prayers' is objectively the cringiest emptiest platitude there is. That one irks me.
There's nothing wrong with being passionate about what you believe in. I just think it's dumb to believe in absolutes, which I've mentioned before. We could be someone's snow globe that they decide to shatter 'tomorrow.' Nobody can prove otherwise. -
2016-12-11 at 6:16 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ Just sounds like they really like science and are trying to be pretentious about it. Just like the die-hard Christians who wear Jesus propaganda and take every opportunity they can to share the gospel. I was like that for a while, both sides of the spectrum quite honestly. When I was ultra anti-Christianity I wore Jesus shirts ironically and took any chance I could to share how stupid I thought it was. I still think it's stupid but I don't lash into believers like I used to. I get why people believe in religion; it's not complicated. Those I object to are those that feel high and mighty and accept their beliefs as a sort of science and want to bring into every discussion. Oh and 'so sad, thoughts and prayers' is objectively the cringiest emptiest platitude there is. That one irks me.
There's nothing wrong with being passionate about what you believe in. I just think it's dumb to believe in absolutes, which I've mentioned before. We could be someone's snow globe that they decide to shatter 'tomorrow.' Nobody can prove otherwise.
That's actually pretty funny. I might start wearing shirts like that ironically. -
2016-12-11 at 6:18 PM UTC^I was going to suggest you do. Like start wearing flat earther t-shirts
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2016-12-11 at 6:19 PM UTCthen you'll have to explain the joke over and over
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2016-12-11 at 6:20 PM UTCAh yeah, I remember phil 101. Good times, fun class.