Are you trying to sound legitimate by using scientific terminology to attack someone’s opinions on religion?
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HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 10 months agoIt sounds like the sum total of your experiments with religion were experiments with Christianity. That isn’t a very sound methodology for experimentation.
pozbo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, I’m a scientist, and my scientific views have lead me to adopt religion. I’m always interested in correctly applying the scientific method to find the truth
pozbo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well my interpretation of the Bible tells me that you’re wrong in doing so. Seems disingenuous.
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The Bible was written by humans, it’s not an authoritative text.
CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Your comment makes no sense
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sense is made by the observer. Let me illustrate with an example. Suppose I were trying to determine whether pills can really cure illnesses. So I ask my friends where I can get some pills to do this experiment, and they refer me to their ecstasy guy. I try experimenting with ecstasy to find if it can cure the common cold, covid-19, and cancer. After rigorous trials, I correctly determine that ecstasy cannot cure any of those illnesses. And then I read the incorrect conclusion that pills don’t cure illnesses. My mistake was over generalising. It was a bad methodology.
Likewise, many people experiment with only one religion and determine religion is bad. Just like in the example I experimented with only one pill and determined pills aren’t useful. It’s the same mistake.
Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve looked into many other religions since then, but I was able to satiate my curiosities through purely academic means. In other words I didn’t find it necessary to drink the flavor aid in order to scratch an itch.