Tag: science the new religion
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Science: From simple to incomprehensible.
Quantum theory is one of the great achievements of 20th century science, yet physicists have struggled to find a clear boundary between our everyday world and what Albert Einstein called the "spooky" features of the quantum world, including cats that could be both alive and dead, and photons that can communicate with each other across…
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Falsifiability. Essential for science. And why we should NOT care!
Last Thursdayism (sometimes Last Tuesdayism or Last Wednesdayism) refers to the idea that the universe may have been created last Thursday, but with the physical appearance of being billions of years old. Under this notion, people's memories, history books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars, and so forth would all have been…
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Free will. Yes, yes, yes... We have one. For the 1000th time, we have one! (ywan) [or: Religion is the Science. Science is Religion]
The vast majority of people think we have free will and are the authors of our own life stories. But if neuroscientists were one day able to predict our every action based on brain scans, would people abandon this belief in droves? A new study concludes that such knowledge would not by itself be enough…
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ΙΧΘΥΣ. Fish extinction. Science as a Religion. Christianism as a... well, NOT a religion.
Scientists predict the extinction of salty water fish by 2048. (1) Like every new religion, science needs its doom prophecies. But Christianism did not predict doom. Like every new religion, science needs to scare people. But Christianism gave people hope by predicting the coming of Love. Like every knew religion, it needs to capitalize on…
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What is Science, Prophecies, Peer review, Free thinking.
Harold Camping died recently. In case you don't remember, Camping, the president of evangelical Family Radio, predicted that the world would end in 2011. Twice. He made these prognostications on the basis of numerology, which sounds like it might be a sophomore-level math subject, but isn't. The data for the calculations Camping used to forecast…
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