Here’s a nice little video I picked up from The Guardian (see You Can’t Trust Science!). It’s a rebuttal of those claims that “Science has an agenda! Science is unreliable!”
(Please ignore the salacious eye-catching aspects).
You Can’t Trust Science! | Science | guardian.c…, posted with vodpod
As the accompanying text points out:
“Science is all about evidence. It is based in reality, in facts and in testable evidence — individual reputations do not change scientific facts, nor does belief, brainwashing and coercion. Scientists test and re-test scientific hypotheses about how the universe is put together and how it functions using the latest cutting-edge technologies. Despite this, there are adults who are taken seriously when they loudly declare: “Science has an agenda! Science is unreliable!” Using this distraction to begin a conversation that they want to dominate, these people then pontificate about their personal fantasy life as if it is real, demanding that everyone else in the world share their particular delusions, and they are taken seriously — without having to produce a shred of real evidence to support their statements.”
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A world-view or philosophical system should be judged by its ideals and not by its abuses or by the failure of people to adhere to what it teaches.
If we judge it by its abuses, as this video has done towards Christianity, then we might reject Science on the grounds of Hiroshima for instance. It’s a bit cheeky to put in the digs and then say, “we’re just kidding” as a way of not having to answer to poor reasoning.
That aside, I say that rational thinking is welcome from all areas of knowledge whether that comes from Science, Religion, or both.