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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Science is a religion, and a rather depressing one in my opinion.
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I'm still hanging off of this idea. I don't get it.
"Science" is a religion. "A system of exploration and knowledge" is a religion.
This essentially means we are all parishioners of this religion. Many of us are born at, live beside, and die on the altar of this religion.
We have lifespans longer than 30 years because of it.
We are able to communicate with loved ones over thousands of miles at the push of a button because of it.
We are born with fewer and fewer defects, and have increased chances of living to reproductive ages because of it.
Most of us don't die from simple infections anymore because of it.
We can control and eliminate pain because of it.
I could go on.
What's so depressing about that?
Creationism cannot be taught beside evolution because it isn't the same field. Evolution is a continuing study that requires scientists to produce research and results that are peer reviewed and rejected or accepted as an outcome of that. Just like any other scientific endeavour. This is why we don't teach time travel, teleporatation, resurrection, and biological immortality in scientific curricula (yet?).
Creationism isn't subject to scientific scrutiny because it is accepted as unchangeable fact, even when the facts don't exist.
That's the problem here. We tend to prefer to teach facts when it comes to the sciences.