I’m curious, who are these people that treat science as a religion? Do you have any notable examples? I keep hearing about these people, but I have never seen them myself. I can’t help but feel like this is coming from religious people who would mistakenly say say that atheists have “faith” in science the way they have faith in a god.
No, I’m an atheist… I hear what you’re saying, but this kind of person pops up all the time, some even on this thread iirc.
Think of the kind of person who, without thinking critically about it or making any attempt to understand it, blindly starts sentences with, “Science teaches us ___”. No ability to differentiate scientific theory from pseudo scientific nonsense, and glad to half-remember something they learned poorly in high school to justify “through science” whatever crappy thing they want to do.
Think if many an intel screed about “females” and “evolutionary psychology” or the pseudo scientific racism of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
“Yes, but that’s not actually science,” I hear you say. Yes, that’s the point; it’s jumbled up dogma in service of being a dickhead, which is what I mean by “treating science like religion.”
I’m curious, who are these people that treat science as a religion? Do you have any notable examples? I keep hearing about these people, but I have never seen them myself. I can’t help but feel like this is coming from religious people who would mistakenly say say that atheists have “faith” in science the way they have faith in a god.
No, I’m an atheist… I hear what you’re saying, but this kind of person pops up all the time, some even on this thread iirc.
Think of the kind of person who, without thinking critically about it or making any attempt to understand it, blindly starts sentences with, “Science teaches us ___”. No ability to differentiate scientific theory from pseudo scientific nonsense, and glad to half-remember something they learned poorly in high school to justify “through science” whatever crappy thing they want to do.
Think if many an intel screed about “females” and “evolutionary psychology” or the pseudo scientific racism of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
“Yes, but that’s not actually science,” I hear you say. Yes, that’s the point; it’s jumbled up dogma in service of being a dickhead, which is what I mean by “treating science like religion.”