Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by splithalf on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:18PM
(#26624100)
I’d prefer my scientists to be less confident in their understanding of the world, and more humble about their knowledge. Maybe reading Kuhn does that for most people today, but there’s a long tradition of religion fulfilling a similar function, allowing “mystery” back in, emphasizing the imperfection of man. Religion should instill an attitude of “I don’t know, but I want to know.” That’s the right attitude for discovery.
Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by AuthorizedCust on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:17PM
(#26624094)
I find your example is more strongly of the corruption of fundamentalism on the person rather than of compartmentalization.
Basically you can be a great surgeon and religious, but you can't be a great evolutionary biologist and a creationist (at least not without some serious blinders).
If I'm talking to a doctor that's a creationist and they're skeptical about a vaccine - my prior would be that it's more likely this doctor was corrupted by anti-vaxx pseudoscience woo than has an accurate model of the vaccine's risk. I'd want to talk to someone who I know doesn't have a core example of corrupted reasoning.