Sunday, August 2, 2009

Science and Religion

On the science verse religion part, its always astounded me how science always seems to point in the same direction after a bout of well mannered infighting to eventually settle on a conclusion we can test in the real world until new information comes out and the process starts over, while even inside one religion the doctrinal splits become more and more prevalent, people who devote their entire lives to understanding "god" are unable to reconcile any two sects of the same religion.

I used to, when me and my shipmates would be talking about religion I'd throw out that all over the world you can have people doing the same experiment independently and they are going to get the same results. That always fascinated me. Science doesn't care what you think, you do something, you get a result and if you do it again in the exact same way, you get the same result, then you show some peeps and they go "wow, apparently X + Y = Z, someone write this down"

Then we get religion, where if two people read the same book they can get wildly different takes on it, there's no reconciliation and people argue on it endlessly with no end in sight because, well, what are you supposed to say to any two religious bodies that is going to get the other side to go "oh, your right, we're doing it wrong, damn"

Is their anything?

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