(10-13-2017, 06:09 AM)Lycen Wrote: There is science and then there is scientism, the latter is what we are being teached.
And yet you refuse to refute or explain even a single argument I've brought up because it disagrees with your new biblical belief system?
There are people that treat science as a religion (scientism), but you are treating it like its the devil, refusing to accept any evidence that doesn't match what you want to be true. Even phenomena that is visible with the naked eye.
That isn't science either. It's religion, which isn't interested in facts unless it conforms with the distortions (the stories) passed down from all the other people.
But it is clear you are not interested in having a conversation, or seriously looking for answers, you are just looking for confirmation of what you already believe. That is what most of the world is doing (I've done it in the past as well). There are places where the scientific method breaks down, for example, with things that are not falsifiable or testable (like the human spirit), and so they are left up to the mystics, but with the physical world it is remarkably exacting and discerning for most things (especially involving physics). Flat Earth for example is readily testable, and it readily fails the reality test.
But if you're happy with your religion, so be it. But don't believe for a second that you are honestly looking at the facts here, because it is painfully obvious you don't want to acknowledge them.
Amusing anecdote of Richard Garriott (private citizen) on his trip to space: