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Did scientists teach the earth was flat?
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<blockquote data-quote="eMesreveR" data-source="post: 49047357" data-attributes="member: 232103"><p>Let me venture a guess as to your point:</p><p></p><p>"Scientists were wrong in the past!"</p><p></p><p> Scientists are wrong all the time. Rutherford's plum pudding model of the atom? Wrong. The view that the Universe would eventually collapse on itself? Wrong. The idea that evolution occurs primarily through gradual, incremental changes, as Darwin proposed it? Kinda off. (If I remember correctly, the dominant view is punctuated equilibrium today).</p><p></p><p>Science isn't always right. It's not intended to be always right. It's a protocol for accumulating data and matching our theories to the data. It's a work in progress. It is dynamic. The dominant theories of the time period, ideally, reflect the best explanations we have for the data we've observed.</p><p></p><p>Faith, on the other hand, is static. Faith can never be questioned. Those who question faith are simply wrong. God is taken on faith. The sanctity of human life is taken on faith. Racism is taken on faith. The fairness of slavery was taken on faith.</p><p></p><p>And that's why faith, with regards to factual claims that we can verify, is dysfunctional. It never changes and never adapts, and simply dies when the time comes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eMesreveR, post: 49047357, member: 232103"] Let me venture a guess as to your point: "Scientists were wrong in the past!" Scientists are wrong all the time. Rutherford's plum pudding model of the atom? Wrong. The view that the Universe would eventually collapse on itself? Wrong. The idea that evolution occurs primarily through gradual, incremental changes, as Darwin proposed it? Kinda off. (If I remember correctly, the dominant view is punctuated equilibrium today). Science isn't always right. It's not intended to be always right. It's a protocol for accumulating data and matching our theories to the data. It's a work in progress. It is dynamic. The dominant theories of the time period, ideally, reflect the best explanations we have for the data we've observed. Faith, on the other hand, is static. Faith can never be questioned. Those who question faith are simply wrong. God is taken on faith. The sanctity of human life is taken on faith. Racism is taken on faith. The fairness of slavery was taken on faith. And that's why faith, with regards to factual claims that we can verify, is dysfunctional. It never changes and never adapts, and simply dies when the time comes. [/QUOTE]
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