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Science is a form or methodology of testing certain ideas through experiments, but it is the scientific community that actually proposes the conclusions on how our world works.

Sometimes the scientific community can get things wrong, even holding the false notions as truth for decades before realizing the mistakes, in just this last century alone too.

I am assuming this topic is an attack on religions and theists, but for one to accuse the other of blind dogmatic belief but then assume that same attitude towards the scientific community is a better example of hypocrisy but often goes unnoticed due to its subtlety.

Verum Causa wrote:
Not for lack of trying to learn and do better. They do the best they can with incomplete information, and they do it better than others.

Overall, I agree. In principle, science is neutral and is generally used to discover the truth, but it should also be acknowledged that sometimes the veneer of respectability and credibility of scientific studies can be tainted with greed and selfish motivations. For example, there are drug companies and pharmaceuticals among others, who may fund and commission studies that seem to suggest evidence in favor of a certain thinking, which ultimately benefits their own agenda.

Verum Causa wrote:
Beg pardon? Dogmatic belief? To the contrary. Science encourages questioning. Besides, this post wasn’t directly addressed at theists, but their among the main culprits.

Science doesn’t promote dogma, because science is not a living breathing thing, but the scientific community isn’t as flexible and open minded as we sometimes like to portray. The scientific community is, after all, formed of human beings, and they have their own culture and sets of rules.

For the time being, it would appear that our collective thinking is dominated by a materialistic approach. To even suggest that there may be a spiritual dimension to the existence of our self, for example, would get one ostracized and shunned by the community as ‘pseudo-science’, but I do think that attitude is also slightly changing now, since there is currently a study going on which is looking into near death events or ‘flat lines’ and out of body experiences that are typically reported. In that experiment, the hospital floors have special markings which the patient cannot see from the bed, and after reviving them, they are questioned and asked to describe the room during their OBE, and if their description matches the reality, then it would prove that there exists a part of our self that is not restrained by the physical location of the mind.

Anyhow, the point is, there is a community and a dominant attitude of thinking with a narrow view, which is self defeating for the goal of discovery and learning in a wider sense.

Ok. lol

ever seen bill bailies part troll tour?

He says the same thing, but with visual…