Re: SSM Plebiscite
Reply #587 –
This sort of knowledge is not minor or insignificant - the Cosmos article makes it very clear, the science community is getting antsy after decades of searching. They are desperate to find any proof that these things exist, and the minute that happens they will be crowing to the world.
I won't be reading any of those papers, because they will be a waste of time.
Well that isn't surprising.
But even your Comos article doesn't support your claims, it's not debating the existence of those things(dark or light) whatever they may be, it's debating the explanations and understanding of them, and that is exactly what science is about!
I know you realise none of this affects your religion, science is not an attack on religion, it never was and never will be. But you cannot claim science is dogmatic or a religion if a scientists asks you for proof, that is a religious perspective imposed on science.
When a scientist like Dawkins expresses his disbelief in God, he is not doing so from a scientific perspective, he does so from a belief base because there is no scientific evidence one way or the other. Dawkins is accused of parodying religion using religions own belief and faith systems, and he is very good at it. Being a scientist doesn't exclude him from being a prick, just as being a priest doesn't exclude someone from being a pedophile!
You cannot prove religion by disproving science, it's a false premise.