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Originally Posted by Voodoo Chile
Science is only right until it's proven wrong years later. It was once a "scientific fact" that the Earth was flat and that the sun revolved around it. Sounds pretty stupid now, doesn't it? And a hundred years from now, people are going to look back at our "scientific facts" and think that we were idiots for ever believing them. So really, science may as well be a religion. You're putting your faith in a mere human in a lab coat. A scientific test doesn't conclusively prove anything, it's just a theory that'll most likely be "disproven" later on by another theory, which'll be "disproven" later on by another theory, and so on. Science, religion, it's all just theories.
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It wasn't a scientific fact. The scientific method wasn't applied to these things.
What's your alternative to this apparantly misplaced faith in science? Thing that rain is angels crying? Spontaneous genesis?
I would say that science has aspects of a religion while not being one itself. Soley because all religions have a belief in the supernatural (of something, not neccessarily a diety) whereas science seeks to remove the prescence of a diety in everything.