Science is just another belief system, and like any belief system it can be abused. Before anyone starts flipping out I am not denying science has value or saying it is not valid. The problem with science is it is a fact that most people do not KNOW anything about it. Science is based on empirical data, IE first hand observation via the senses. This can take many forms and come via many different types of instruments. Most people never personally conducted any of these experiments to verify the validity of any of this data, they are simply accepting second hand information from others who have. As a result most science is simply just a collection of beliefs. You believe the scientist that collected the data did so correctly. You believe they don't have ulterior motives. You believe the peer reviews of said studies are accurate and not doctored. You believe the journals that publish them do not have ulterior motives.
Since most people don't have the knowledge or resources to replicate these experiments themselves, what most people call science is just a string of beliefs. In sort, unless you have witnessed it with your own senses, you are just practicing another belief system. As a result science can be manipulated and have many of the same flaws of any other belief system, especially considering the fact that there is still a lot that science still does not claim to know. This is important to understand, because without this knowledge one can fall into many of the same traps that plague religious believers by blindly just swallowing what others have told you and accepting it as fact rather than a possible unknown.
Wow.. Nailed it!
Science is just another belief system that happens to have some facts that everybody would agree on, same as any other religion.
Sorry but that is totaly wrong.
Science doesnt need faith to work. That people are willing to accept x without proof and fact checking doesnt make science a belief system - logical fallacy here.
I know that anybody on planet earth except the mentally challenged can research and understand any scientific fact with just enough time and discipline.
Well, is science theory part of science or not?
Do people believe that science theory is fact or not?
If science theory is fact, then why is it not called science fact?
The point is, science theory is not known to be fact. Yet there are many people who believe some of science theory to be true. Not only do they believe it, but they go around telling other people that it is true and real and factual when they don't know that it is true and real and factual.
Why do they believe this way? They believe based on faith.
A good example of this is that many people in NASA say that Big Bang is real when it is just a theory. The theory doesn't say it is real, and it doesn't say that it is not real. We don't know via science if BB is real or not.
When people act like Big Bang is real, believing it to be so, they have a Big Bang religion going for themselves, because nobody knows if it is real or not.
Science may not have always been like this. There may have been a time before science theory that science was based in complete fact. But now that it is partly based in theory (unknowns), science is religion.
