Believing in science makes scientists feel better. Science is a system of explanation; myths and religion are a system of explanation. What harm - indeed, what difference - is there between the two, if all truths are relative to the believer? .
But there is a very important difference. Real science, unlike religion and any other system that explains the world, offers no truth. It offers merely probability. There is no law of science that is immune to question and testing and doubt. To be useful, a scientific statement has to be testable. The evidence that supports a statement has to be external. It also has to be predictable; if something happens only once any theory about its nature is untestable. Science, as Shermer says, "aims for objectivity: basing conclusions on external validation. And we avoid mysticism: basing conclusions on personal insights that elude external validation." (pg. 20) .
There is no way to test the existence of ghosts, psychic phenomena or crop circles. The only testable, concrete evidence for them (for instance, smudgy photographs) can be doubted as doctored; they cannot be reproduced or observed in any testable context. Testaments to their formation are almost exclusively without any documentation or instrument readings - just visual reports from a distance. A commonly held scientific belief is that the simplest explanation is usually the truest one. In the case of the supernatural/superstitious, the simplest is dismissed with as little consideration as the most complicated explanation is accepted. What unifies these accounts is the witnesses" willingness to believe what their observations point to - that their ancestors are still alive, that we are not alone in the universe, that they know what almost no one else in the world knows and therefore belong to a secret club. It is extremely difficult to find any evidence that disproves the roundness of the earth; at the very least, the pro-roundness observations far outweigh the pro-flatness ones.
I don't know why anyone would take up reading as a hobby. ... The arrival of the Depression has made things around Stamps even worse. ... It must have felt weird, seeing their dad after so long. ... Some people don't quite believe that black people can be just as racist as whites, but I think they can. ... She doesn't know why for sure but she is. ...
Weird attitudes are also included in a person that makes him unique despite being crazy for having it. ... Being strong is also my firm point especially when it comes to bullying that is why I don't easily trust people whom I think is not worth my trust. ... All my good points mostly come from my family that is why I am very protective of them, my friends, the people I love and the things I cherished. ... Being a KPOP fan is one of my weird obsessions. ... I like planning and organizing things and I like things settled as soon as possible. ...
One of the most interesting things about there culture was there religion. ... The Aztecs believed in an afterlife, but it was a little complicated. ... It was also believed that people would reincarnate to things such as butterflies or birds and even eventually humans. ... Some of there traditions that might seem weird to us, would be totally normal for them. This is why it is interesting to learn about the things that they did and how they lived in there day to day lives....
I think that he is wrong in his decisions and had very big weird ideas. First, Hobbes believed that all people did something for a reason. ... He didn't know that people would do things out of their own good will. ... Hobbes had a horrible sense of believing and needed to actually know what happens to start making judgments on all things living in nature. ... He believed that people did things with their evil side, they had no faith in each other or anything, and that democracy was an answer not to be trusted. ...
The Puritan life style is very weird. ... If their life does not involve some sort of suffering, then they believe that it is not right. ... That is why the towns folk thought that what Hester did was wrong. ... People do not like to do things if they do not feel good. ... Puritanism is a very weird religion, worship by suffering. ...
People come to the United States because of the opportunities that exist; we are called the Land of Opportunities. ... Middle Easterner's wear sari's, dots on their foreheads, pray all the time, and eat what Americans call "weird food." ... Caucasian Americans also have a theory as to why African-Americans seem to have more offspring's then they can handle. Americans believe that they seem to have more children so that when they"re not working, they can collect more welfare from the government. ... This is also another from of discrimination which is another reason as to why peo...
At the end of the novel when the chaplain comes to Meursalt's cell to talk to him about God, he says, "Why haven't you come to see me? ... His lawyer asks him to lie about certain things, to get him a less severe sentence, but Meursalt refuses and says that that's not the truth. ... The people of the jury think he is this monster without a soul for being honest, yet Meursalt knows he is free. In this book, Albert Camus shows Meursalt as this weird person who doesn't care about much, yet he has heroic qualities that many people would love to have. To do the things that ...
Dracula The story "Dracula" is fictional but there are some circumstances if some person believes in vampires or not. ... The characters all act a little weird in my opinion. ... The dialogue was kind of weird to read at first but I got use to it and it wasn't so bad. ... It surely is a bestseller in my opinion and I believe in the eyes of critics as well. ... That things that leave you should leave for a reason and you shouldn't let it keep you from living. ...
