Submitted by BasketCase0024 t3_y8sp94 in philosophy
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Reply to comment by memoryballhs in [Peter Harrison] Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it by BasketCase0024
> Science is not a religion it's a method to approach problems.
If you deconstruct it into its constituent parts, applying some abstraction in the process, I propose that one will find that people's psychological relationship with science is extremely similarly to that with religion.
Faith, or more accurately the cognitive processes that underlie it, are fundamental to human beings - it is our evolved nature. And simply declaring it to be gone does not make it go away - although, it can certainly make it appear as if it has gone away.
> The scientific method is valueless and therefore useless as any kind of ideology.
The scientific method has no volition, it must be implemented by humans....and humans loooooove their ideologies.
> Or calls to "follow the science". Also a ridiculous statement.
Now we're talking - but consider: what percentage of the people who subscribe to the ideology are able to realize and acknowledge that?
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