Christianity could be a higher order way of organizing lives

[MadMojoMonkey]

Historically, they only seem to cave on things when the evidence is overwhelming and generally can't be argued against any more.

This describes science, too.

But with science, the beliefs being replaced are also based on evidence. It's not like Newton pulled the theory of gravity out of his ass, the way the Bible's theories of many things are.

What?

[Poopadoop]

What?

I just gave an example of a theory based on evidence (Newton), being replaced by a theory that better explained anomalies in that evidence (Einstein). What do you object to about that argument?

If you can show there was a scientific theory that was based on just whatever storybook the scientist read the previous night, and everyone blindly accepted that theory until it was overwhelmingly proven false, then please do.

[MadMojoMonkey]

I just gave an example of a theory based on evidence (Newton), being replaced by a theory that better explained anomalies in that evidence (Einstein). What do you object to about that argument?

Nothing. Check the underscores in those quotes I quoted.

If you can show there was a scientific theory that was based on just whatever storybook the scientist read the previous night, and everyone blindly accepted that theory until it was overwhelmingly proven false, then please do.

Wait... isn't that your whole profession up to about 20 years ago?


You're gonna have to pin that down, 'cause "the scientist" could cover a toddler jumping in puddles, experimenting on the concept of wetness.


After a brief google search, I couldn't find any direct evidence to corroborate the tales I was told in school, not even the dates of the "era of armchair philosophers," I was told about, so I got nothing.

[Poopadoop]

Wait... isn't that your whole profession up to about 150 years ago?

fyp. Modern psychology was born before Freud was around. Around about the time Broca met Tan.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...ed-psychology/

[MadMojoMonkey]

fyp. Modern psychology was born before Freud was around. Around about the time Broca met Tan.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...ed-psychology/

A) This means jk.
B) Damn that article's amazing. When they started talking MRI, I was lost for a second, then I was amazed. They still have the brains? And they're still fully intact and scannable?

I'm feeling spiritually awakened by the science!

[Poopadoop]

They still have the brains? And they're still fully intact and scannable?

Yup.