People are the same everywhere and like to believe the same things. They think similar ways and arrive at similar conclusions.
Ideas are independently and repeatedly concieved at different times in different places, because the machines that think them up are virtually all the same.
Right...so what you're saying is that science is fictional...because people everywhere like to believe the samethings...they think similarly and arrive at similar conclusions
Also....isn't it strange that people who say they have realized the mystery of mysteries, the essential truth, etc...all say very very similar things??
ok,
firstly, science is infallible. you heard me. I find it sad that someone who would attack science in such a way knows nothing about it.
SCIENCE: science is a method of observation, hypothesizing, testing, formulation of theories, and optimization of theories. the scientific method, by definition, can't be wrong.
Q: how does one prove a scientific theory wrong?
A: a better scientific theory.
however, VitalOne, you seem to be confusing science and scientific theories. don't feel too bad, most people are too stupid to know the difference.
Woah, you must not know how to use a dictionary:
sci‧ence [sahy-uhns] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
2. systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
3. any of the branches of natural or physical science.
4. systematized knowledge in general.
5. knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained by systematic study.
6. a particular branch of knowledge.
7. skill, esp. reflecting a precise application of facts or principles; proficiency.
Check definition 5, and now figure out what "modern science" means, don't worry you can do it if you try hard enough. Ancient science is different from modern science....
to the point of similarity of religions:
the conclusion that they are teaching some absolute truth does not follow from the premise that they teach similar things. however, the fact that they teach similar things does support the view that ideas evolve. humans, no matter where they live, have similar desires for truth. therefore, man has devised methods for finding truth. early in human history, the best way of finding truth was simply to ask an elder/shaman, and thus religion was born. later, man developed a much better way of finding truth, it is called science. however, some desires of man, such as absolute truth, are not something that can be answered by science. thus, all of the things that science cannot explain, are still in the realm of religion. its easy to see that, as science developed, religion was blotted out in some areas, much like a candle will light a dark room. the candle of science has illuminated so many things that were previously staples of religions (like chariots pulling the sun across the sky) that all religions are left with the same dark corners to hide in. think about it, 3000 years ago, there were few similarities in the religions of distant peoples. religion has mutated and adapted, which I find funny, since some of the religions that have done so, do not acknowledge evolution.
You should know that science and religion are only enemies in the West. Also, don't you find it strange that people who claim to have found a path to end all suffering, path to eternal bliss, all say very similar things? Maybe, in reality, they really did discover the essential truth, and thats why they say very very similar things. Also, I don't really see how science is in contradiction with their words.
Vital,
Or they have all made the same error. Or the later ones have simply copied from previous wisdoms.
If it is an error, then why haven't religions which teach the opposite become as global as their teachings? Surely it wouldn't matter all, but it does.
Many wisdoms are simply obvious to any rational thinker but the commonality between these ancients is their ignorance of how the universe operates and that has led all of them to create imaginary spiritual concepts to explain what couldn’t otherwise be explained. That many of their wisdoms had real weight tended to give weight to their other fanciful spiritual concepts, and hence easily believed and consumed by the gullible.
What is ignorant or contradictory about it? Milleniums before Quantum Mechanics had proven that reality really has no independant existence, and that all is inherent chaos it was said by these same spiritual masters.
The reason you conclude it is ignorant is because you may find something contradictory in modern science, so it must be ignorant, right?
You appear not to understand science. Science doesn’t claim to present truth unlike religions. Science is a continuously changing process that enables us to obtain knowledge. The main strength of science is its ability to change and adapt as new discoveries are made. But much of what science has discovered is clearly true and enables us to proceed at an accelerated pace to discover even more. Religion on the other hand has yet to demonstrate a single credible truth.
Science does claim to present the truth. The reason you say religion is mythical and imaginary is because it doesn't agree with science...right? Therefore you yourself have proven my point.
So science in 1,000 years will remain the same as it is now? What I'm saying is that many things we believe are true currently in 1,000 years we will not...how can anyone disagree with that?
That anyone who understands science doesn’t claim.
You clearly claim this because you claim that religion is fictional, you come to this conclusion from science, therefore you claim that science is 100% true, to the highest degree. And since it is 100% true to highest degree, religion must be false.
Except when they continually change over the centuries based on discoveries made by science.
They don't change. How do they change? They're scriptures.....
Except for the unfounded spiritual fantasies that alter on a whim and are eminently foolish.
Again..they don't change...
No religious fantasy has ever been shown to be true so why would any rational person believe them?
Again, you say that you don't claim that science is 100% true, yet you say everything as it if it is...
