> People can be indoctrinated into science, I suppose, but more often it's something rational minds arrive at.
Come on. That's myth that beggars belief. Did you somehow independently arrive at science by yourself as a rational mind? Of course not. It's a set of values and habits of mind that you absorbed and where explicitly taught from childhood (e.g. were indoctrinated into).
> A rational adherence to science isn't a worship of "gods" it's the understanding that it's a rational approach to gaining knowledge and understanding the universe.
And religion is (frequently) the understanding that gods should be worshiped in a certain way, which is also totally rational within that understanding.
> 'gods' don't enter into it unless they are the subject of a hypothesis/theory/experiment.
You're taking my statement too literally.
It's very hard to get out of one's own mindset to see it for what it is .
Come on. That's myth that beggars belief. Did you somehow independently arrive at science by yourself as a rational mind? Of course not. It's a set of values and habits of mind that you absorbed and where explicitly taught from childhood (e.g. were indoctrinated into).
> A rational adherence to science isn't a worship of "gods" it's the understanding that it's a rational approach to gaining knowledge and understanding the universe.
And religion is (frequently) the understanding that gods should be worshiped in a certain way, which is also totally rational within that understanding.
> 'gods' don't enter into it unless they are the subject of a hypothesis/theory/experiment.
You're taking my statement too literally.
It's very hard to get out of one's own mindset to see it for what it is .