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RE: Science, Jesus Christ, and A New Purpose for 2018!
Very accurate, one of the biggest barriers for scientists is the predetermined attributes that come with a concept such as God, Jesus or central figures in other faiths such as Allah or Buddha. Like you hit on science focuses on mental biases, and for many, a large bias is an unreliable 4 millennia old text and the interpretations of God which are drawn from it.
I also hint that biases (or what prevents scientific understanding) is the scope of observation. 1 meter way, the observable truths of a wooded table are unreliable at 1 micron away from the molecular wood of the table. Many people unable to observe at the 1 micron level would fall back to faith in their scientific observations that a wooden table has three to four legs and is level. A person who only has the 1 micron experience in observation has is likely to have faith that a wooden table is an unfathomable work, they might even doubt in a creator of any kind.
To have faith in science is to have faith in the method of describing the material world accurately... many people fall victim to the fallacy of authority and end up having the same kind of faith in science related things as much as the people who they might criticize for having Faith in Allah , God, or another religions description of the spiritual life.
Very well said. It could almost be said maybe we really do look at the world synonymously to from a micron away. That is to say, we aren't getting the full picture of our reality either, if we could see the metaphorical "three to four legs and level" of the universe, we might have a very different outlook.
Hopefully you get what I'm trying to suggest there, however I also agree that scientific theory can sometimes become similar to the tenants of a faith. To give an unequivocal status of truth to a concept, such as the speed of light as a limit, requires a faith in research and observations likely not made by the chemist who employs them in the lab. Those who operate to enforce such a mindset can limit their ability to see things outside of their belief system and blind themselves to new discoveries beyond their realm.
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