This is about the practice, not the practitioners.
When I read your message, my takeaway is, “Science as a process is so reliable that you can take irrational beings who believe in a ghost father, teach them the scientific method and generate provable rational outcomes that yield progress.”
The rational ‘machine’ is what matters, I could not care less about the irrational thoughts of the ‘gears’.
TLDR, People are irrational, yep, even scientists. Thank goodness even irrational beings can follow a rational process.
I would like to know what they mean by that. Like a Spinoza-Einstein higher power, or a diest higher power, or go to services once a year higher power…
Belief in a higher power is pretty vague. If you pushed me I might concede that since I believe that our universe has operating laws and humans have the ability to understand them I believe in a higher power that is our understanding of these laws. That the community that is humanity can produce a collective understanding that is greater than we can produce as individuals. In this very vague sense I believe in a higher power. I would prefer we just call it our collective knowledge but whatever.
He was an Unitarian (Christians that reject the Trinity) so even for his time he believed in two less gods than the people around him did. Making him that much more of an atheist.
Believe it or not, a majority of scientists in the United States believe in a higher power according to Pew.
This is about the practice, not the practitioners.
When I read your message, my takeaway is, “Science as a process is so reliable that you can take irrational beings who believe in a ghost father, teach them the scientific method and generate provable rational outcomes that yield progress.”
The rational ‘machine’ is what matters, I could not care less about the irrational thoughts of the ‘gears’.
TLDR, People are irrational, yep, even scientists. Thank goodness even irrational beings can follow a rational process.
Yeah but they don’t use it to do their job.
Their thesis director?
I would like to know what they mean by that. Like a Spinoza-Einstein higher power, or a diest higher power, or go to services once a year higher power…
Belief in a higher power is pretty vague. If you pushed me I might concede that since I believe that our universe has operating laws and humans have the ability to understand them I believe in a higher power that is our understanding of these laws. That the community that is humanity can produce a collective understanding that is greater than we can produce as individuals. In this very vague sense I believe in a higher power. I would prefer we just call it our collective knowledge but whatever.
Isaac Newton was a christian. Seems like theres room to believe and also be awesome in science. But maybe its as rare as the Newtons of history are
He was an Unitarian (Christians that reject the Trinity) so even for his time he believed in two less gods than the people around him did. Making him that much more of an atheist.