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re: "Why Do People Persist in Believing Things That Just Aren't True?"
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:33 am to GeauxTigerTM
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:33 am to GeauxTigerTM
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When you say things like the above, you sound idiotic. We live in an age made possible by scientific breakthroughs. To pretend that science is not reliable because it's never 100% correct is absurd.
So doctors who prescribed frontal lobotomies for patients or gave opiates to small children weren't part of the scientific field? And nutritionist don't use science to come up with their recommendations? And astronomers who once thought the earth was flat or that the sun revolved around the earth weren't part of science?
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Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:44 am to Revelator
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So doctors who prescribed frontal lobotomies for patients or gave opiates to small children weren't part of the scientific field?
Yes, and they were wrong! Yet, they were more right than when their predecessors were praying to the sun god for help with these ailments!
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And nutritionist don't use science to come up with their recommendations?
Yes...
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And astronomers who once thought the earth was flat or that the sun revolved around the earth weren't part of science?
And as new and better data came in that challenged those beliefs, they changed their minds. Guess where that new data came from? OTHER SCIENTISTS! See...that's the difference between science and your worldview. It can be changed with new data that refutes the old notions. We're still new at this...we're learning and growing. It's not perfect, but it's sure as shite better than looking to the sky and hoping for answers.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 7:13 pm to Revelator
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So doctors who prescribed frontal lobotomies for patients or gave opiates to small children weren't part of the scientific field? And nutritionist don't use science to come up with their recommendations? And astronomers who once thought the earth was flat or that the sun revolved around the earth weren't part of science?
Science evolves with the times. 2000 year old religious texts don't.
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