Why Study The Sciences?

[Webster]

Thoughts on the topic, y'all?

 

[Nebulous]

Knowledge is power!

 

[Ravenfreak]

"Facts are facts, but the interpretation of them is a different issue, and at the end, what matters." This is a very powerful quote that many people gloss over whenever they express their views on many subjects, not just science. They often go with their feelings and don't want to believe the hard cold facts even if you put them in very easy to digest terms.

 

[Webster]

 

[Nebulous]

Science shows us he doesn’t exist.

 

[MrDawn]

Because it is a major necessity. It is not a belief. Saying Science is a belief is like saying Mathematics and English are a belief.

Science is the greatest collective endeavor. It contributes to ensuring a longer and healthier life, monitors our health, provides medicine to cure our diseases, alleviates aches and pains, helps us to provide water for our basic needs – including our food, provides energy and makes life more fun, including sports, music, entertainment and the latest communication technology.

Science for Society - UNESCO​

 

[Scarlet Rose]

I would also absolutely expand this to include the social sciences, I think in many ways learning the social sciences can be more crucial than learning the natural sciences because of their emphasis on things like critical thinking and acting as a general critic of society. Their critiques of the natural sciences are also safeguards in the same way that their critiques of other areas of society such as politics are needed safeguards.

 

[MamaFrankie]

Sciences are useful. More so than Arts.

 

[DrLeftover]

Science shows us he doesn’t exist.

Oh? since when can you prove a metaphysical statement empirically?


To answer the OP:

"All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it."
- Paracelsus

 

[MrDawn]

Oh? since when can you prove a metaphysical statement empirically?

lol. I imagine anyone who can prove the existence of any deity would win the nobel prize.

 

[DrLeftover]

lol. I imagine anyone who can prove the existence of any deity would win the nobel prize.

I'm sorry.

That's not what I said.

Read it again: "prove a metaphysical statement empirically"

 

[MrDawn]

I'm sorry.

That's not what I said.

Read it again: "prove a metaphysical statement empirically"

I'm sure someday you'll reach the top of the bell curve.

 

[DrLeftover]

 

[Vaeve]

Let's think of an example.. When you're in deep shit with a physical illness, science/medicine helps you and not your fucking imaginary friend in the air lmao

 

[Nebulous]

Let's think of an example.. When you're in deep shit with a physical illness, science/medicine helps you and not your fucking imaginary friend in the air lmao

Harsh... but I can't help but laugh at the same time

 

[MrDawn]

Science shows us he doesn’t exist.

History perhaps.

 

[Dee]

Science shows us he doesn’t exist.

Science has not been able to recreate (or even create) hard and fast evidence that this theory a god or gods exist. Science as we know it hasn't been able to do that, and I trust science more than I do the perceived words of a small group of people who may or may not have been taking drugs, mentally ill, or just so ignorant of how their world works that they decided an all-powerful life form somehow exists up in a little place called heaven.

 

[SpookyZalost]

Ironically enough while science may not be able to prove god exists... yet. It can make biblical miracles happen.

For example... the dead sea is highly salty. that makes it incredibly dense and so under the right conditions one could walk on it.

Water into wine? just add powder.

burning bush that emits no heat and talks? Projections and holograms.

Sky chariots? Aircraft/spacecraft.

I could go on but the truth is in today's world even something like localized omniscience is possible... after all we all have phones in our pockets with cameras and microphones right? collate that data and you're omniscient to anything around anyone in range. Use the internet and deductive reasoning and you too can appear relatively omnipotent to the uninitiated.

So really what makes "god" so special? He's jealous, easy to anger, quick to smite, and all but demands fealty as most gods do. "Thou shalt not have any gods before me."

Honestly he sounds pretty damn human to me. And unlike god science doesn't care who you are, only about facts and truth no matter the cost to gain that truth.
I put my faith in science any day Because knowledge is power and absolute knowledge means the world is your oyster.

 

[Nebulous]

Ironically enough while science may not be able to prove god exists... yet. It can make biblical miracles happen.

For example... the dead sea is highly salty. that makes it incredibly dense and so under the right conditions one could walk on it.

Water into wine? just add powder.

burning bush that emits no heat and talks? Projections and holograms.

Sky chariots? Aircraft/spacecraft.

I could go on but the truth is in today's world even something like localized omniscience is possible... after all we all have phones in our pockets with cameras and microphones right? collate that data and you're omniscient to anything around anyone in range. Use the internet and deductive reasoning and you too can appear relatively omnipotent to the uninitiated.

So really what makes "god" so special? He's jealous, easy to anger, quick to smite, and all but demands fealty as most gods do. "Thou shalt not have any gods before me."

Honestly he sounds pretty damn human to me. And unlike god science doesn't care who you are, only about facts and truth no matter the cost to gain that truth.
I put my faith in science any day Because knowledge is power and absolute knowledge means the world is your oyster.

Anyone can walk on the dead sea? That sounds like fun. I want to do some water walking some time