Re:Most of the Mind Can’t Tell Fact from Fiction
by em-bee on Sunday September 15, 2019 @01:11PM
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interestingly i just had this discussion a few weeks ago. contrasting belief in scientific "facts"/theories vs belief in religious claims.
in the end both depend on the absence of evidence contradicting the claims.
but that also means that science and religion can co-exist if they do not contradict each other.
we should accept on either side that anything with contradictory evidence can obviously not be true, and stop to pit one side against the other.
any contradictions we find on either side are a sign of misinterpretation of either the scientific evidence or of the religious claims. and on both sides we then need to make an effort to find a better interpretation.
i believe that doing that is possible. even if we remove everything from religions that contradicts current scientific theories there is still a whole lot left for a spiritual belief.
in the end both depend on the absence of evidence contradicting the claims.
but that also means that science and religion can co-exist if they do not contradict each other.
we should accept on either side that anything with contradictory evidence can obviously not be true, and stop to pit one side against the other.
any contradictions we find on either side are a sign of misinterpretation of either the scientific evidence or of the religious claims. and on both sides we then need to make an effort to find a better interpretation.
i believe that doing that is possible. even if we remove everything from religions that contradicts current scientific theories there is still a whole lot left for a spiritual belief.