Scientific Method & Spirit ≠ certainty
- Rely on experimental verification of the falsifiable
- Principles of uncertainty, hypotheses, willingness to live inside imagined theories
- doubting, skepticism, revolutionizing Continual learning
- Rely on faith
- Answers that are always true
- Closure, resolution, clarity, believing
Irreconcilable approaches to knowing
Empirical failure
the persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what’s going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.
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No explanatory/predictive power
I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religious document. Indeed, I can make an even stronger statement. Whenever people have tried to make accurate predictions about the physical world using religious documents they have been famously wrong. By a prediction, I mean a precise statement about the untested behavior of objects or phenomena in the natural world, logged before the event takes place.
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Challenging the foundational beliefs
Overturn established paradigms = achievement
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Explanation ↔︎ boundary of knowledge
- Science’s explanatory power increases
- Religion’s explanatory power decreases - explaining the unknown
the authors invoke divinity only when they reach the boundaries of their understanding. They appeal to a higher power only when staring into the ocean of their own ignorance. They call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.
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