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Originally Posted by Zylark
Whatever the roots, one need to recognize the differences.
One seeks conservation. Another ask you to think for yourself.
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No, that's the myth I'm trying to dispel
. They are two heads of the same beast.
You've just demostrated my point, beautifully I might add.
"Power is the ability to define reality" - W. I. Thomas
You are defining science as superior to inferior religion...and I'm implying that they are equal partners in crime. This is the kind of thing I'm pissed off about.
That was my point, that science and religion can be equally dogmatic. Both cause tunnel vision in the lay practitioner.
In fact, modern "science" can largely be held accountable for far more atrocities than the ancient "myths" of religion. Or if not science, then the modernist, capitalist, and yes, religious ideologies which propel its destructive tendencies. Science is part of the beast that is modern man.
Air Pollution, nagasaki and hiroshima, pesticide poisoning, radiation poisoning, lead poisoning, oil spills, contaminated water, modern warfare...these are all problems that man has created through scientific endeavors for the most part.
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
--> Stephen Hawking
English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - )
Science and Religion as ideas are harmless and good, but when implemented this is not always the case. It's the institutionalization of ideas, and not the ideas themselves which need governing.