Is science just a matter of faith?
An interesting article on how science can become a faith, as religion often does. From the article:
And therein lies the big problem for science and scientists. For most people, science is really a matter of trusting the expert who tells it to us and believing what they tell us. Trust and belief. Faith. Not understanding. How can we understand science, if we can’t understand the language of science? Feynman said, “Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.” He also said, “To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature.” That’s one of the great popularizers of science telling you that without a strong background in postgraduate horrific math and an active imagination, you’ll never really understand what science has to say about the deep truths of nature the way a scientist does. All we can get is the scientist’s interpretation of what the equations and the theory mean. There is simply no other way to apprehend the concepts. Without the math, you learn science by taking what scientists say on faith. You don’t know that Schroedinger’s equation is a scientific fact, you believe it is.
If we are honest with ourselves, we must admit that we accept the incredibly complex scientific phenomena in physics, astronomy, and biology through the process of belief, not through reason. We don’t practice the scientific method. We don’t rationally consider the evidence presented for a theory. We don’t learn science by doing science, we learn science by reading and memorizing. The same way we learn history. Do you really know what an atom is, or that a Higgs boson is a rather important thing, or did you simply accept they were what someone told you they were?
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Source: crystal-ships
Theta the life force: A unification theory of science, religion and the humanities
This looks like it will be a fascinating movie.
The Problem:
We exist in this universe. The bodies of knowledge in it should align and make sense with each other. If they are true, they must align. If you haven’t studied any of these in depth, you may assume that they do align. In actuality, most studies share little between them.
The one most blatant is between Religion and Science – Spiritualist vs. Materialist, and the mythological abyss between them.
How can Science be unified with Religion? The Physicist believes energy cannot be created nor destroyed, but can only be changed in form. He has taken life out of the formula. But life is constantly changing the physical universe. Einstein’s formulas are true, applied to the physical universe, but he was a religious man and believed it was God’s formula.
The modern Physicist has taken God and life out of the formula and believes everything is Matter or Energy in Space and Time.
And certainly religion isn’t unified.
It presents a solution:
Theta, the movie, presents the concept of “Theta” as the missing factor, which has the potential to unify the knowledge of the universe, as well as humanity itself.
