Science examines phenomenon in nature, and by studying a number of similar occurrences over time, we extract the principle or law that governs this phenomenon, with full confidence that within the boundaries of our experiment, that law will never cease to hold true.
Religion is the exact opposite.
Religious people make proclamations of laws that they got from dreams or alleged revelations. And when we observe that these laws do not hold true in even the slightest, they double down and make even more absurd claims about why that is.
It’s interesting when people claim that science cannot investigate god or the supernatural.
Think of what science is. It is human honesty at its best, it is the maximization of truthfulness and the minimization of falsehood.
Science is the recognition of the following:
- Humans lie all the time
- People may not always lie, but they may be under a misapprehension
If you acknowledge this, then it follows trivially that we need a standard and a methodology to be able to tell what is true from what is false
Science is this very methodology. And all it does is eliminate bias, ensure objectivity and above all, provide a framework within which we may investigate reality in a consistent and accurate manner.
So saying science cannot investigate God is saying that when we are most truthful and at our smartest, we cannot investigate god. An attempt to disarm you of your faculties.
Concerning Alternate Pathways to Truth
To find the sides of a triangle, we employ the Pythagorean method, someone could say “I don’t do it that way, I simply twerk twice towards each cardinal direction, and receive the answer telepathically from universe-creating Pixies”.
We can’t stop you from doing so and you can twerk away all you like, but when we sit together to figure out how to solve problems and investigate reality, you don’t get invited to the table.
When the Large Hadron Collider was being constructed, it was scientist who were called together to make it possible, not priests and prophets.
Religious people have been receiving visions from gods for millennia, is it then not strange that nothing remotely useful has ever been revealed?
The heavens watched on unperturbed, for countless ages as humans died horribly from simple things like tooth decay, not understanding the germ theory of disease etc. And the only revelations and visions coming were “ye shall only eat the animal with divided hoofs” and kill the witches?
How many epileptics must have been thought to be demon possessed back then, before we came to understand what it was and how to treat it?
Is it not strange, that those who claim to commune with the Creator of the universe, are completely useless when we seek to find answers to the very mysteries that this very Creator supposedly put in place?
W e are blessed, or perhaps cursed, to inhabit a period in history where knowledge is abundant and readily accessible, what do you have to say for yourself, if you continue echoing ideas that were forged in times of lesser understanding?
When you hear the rumbling thunder that shakes the very earth and behold lightening strike from the heavens, occasionally wrecking havoc; do you know why your heart is not gripped with mortal fear?
Understanding!
You know why and even perhaps how it came about. Understanding master’s fear, ignorance amplifies it!
Now, imagine pre-historic men cowering in their caves, looking on in terror as this strange and inexplicable phenomenon unfolds. What explanations might they come up with?
