To me it is a process, a method, an outlook on life. But so often it is used as a pronoun: “Science says tomatoes are good for you”.
It should be used to encourage rational thinking, clarity of arguement and assumption and rigorous unbiased testing. The pursuit of knowledge and truth. Instead it is often seen as a club, to which you either belong by working in a scientific profession, or you do not.
As a child of a mixed religeon household I felt like an outcast from religeon from an early age—it didn’t matter that I have beliefs of my own, if I didn’t belong to a specific club then I didn’t belong at all. Very few religeous people I met encourage me to have faith regardless of what that faith is.
I see a scientific approach to life and its mysteries as my way of forming my own “map of the territory” as others perhaps use religeon and I hope that as promoters of rationality that we can encourage scientific principles in others rather than making them feel like outcasts for not being in our “club”.
Science.
To me it is a process, a method, an outlook on life. But so often it is used as a pronoun: “Science says tomatoes are good for you”.
It should be used to encourage rational thinking, clarity of arguement and assumption and rigorous unbiased testing. The pursuit of knowledge and truth. Instead it is often seen as a club, to which you either belong by working in a scientific profession, or you do not.
As a child of a mixed religeon household I felt like an outcast from religeon from an early age—it didn’t matter that I have beliefs of my own, if I didn’t belong to a specific club then I didn’t belong at all. Very few religeous people I met encourage me to have faith regardless of what that faith is.
I see a scientific approach to life and its mysteries as my way of forming my own “map of the territory” as others perhaps use religeon and I hope that as promoters of rationality that we can encourage scientific principles in others rather than making them feel like outcasts for not being in our “club”.