Science is Knowledge (whereas Religion is (blindly) Belief). How can Knowledge be blamed? Sometimes it can be wrongfully applied, ok.
Yes, another one of the great superstitions of science; knowledge is good.
Ridiculous: knowledge enables informed decisions. Knowledge has saved your life on many occasions.
The beliefe in science is just as riddled with superstitions and lies as any religion.
Nonsense.
People believe science is the answer to everything. Yet, its application is often more detrimental than the problem was.
Some people believe a lot of nonsense. Scientists don't believe science is the answer to everything. It is the answer to all questions about the general _behaviour_ of the natural world (even the ones we haven't answered yet, and the parts heavily influenced by humans, which some people forget are natural as well).
That is its realm.
The goal of science is to overcome nature and the things in nature that threaten our health and well being.
No it is not. This is an error well worth flagging.
Science is about knowledge: _technology_ and _engineering_ are about using that knowledge. This includes fields such as medicine, which is an application of scientific knowledge.
How can this be right? How can it be right to continue finding ways to keep an ever growing and dangerous population of humans alive to consume and destroy nature?
You seem to be discussing policy issues and confusing them with scientific knowledge.
Or perhaps your point is that it is evil to have the knowledge to be able to grow more food, because someone might use it? This seems ridiculous. Even in the cases of the most dangerous technologies arising from science (eg nuclear bombs) these are emphatically the result of government policy, not science working in isolation. And of course, nuclear bombs are a technology, not science.
Asking how can science be blamed is about like asking how religion can be blamed for all the things people like to blame it for. When you look at science zealots and religious zealots, you will see, they are much more alike than different.
Except they are not. I have worked quite a few years in a scientific research in the public and private sectors, and I can assure you it is a mixture of being an academic researcher, a commercial consultant, and a source of information for governments to make informed policy decisions, and none of them is at all like being a zealot.
If this was intended to be ironic, it did a great job! Otherwise, not so great.
Nope, not ironic at all. 100% The truth.
I uderstand about people who think so highly about science. It really is no different than the religious zealots out there; ready to point out why their belief is the right one. And, that's OK. We're all human and are prone to this problem.
How do you know knowledge is so great? Just because it has done a few useful things? Because it makes you feel like you have something when you have it?
There is absolutely NO PROOF that more knowledge makes the world a better place.
Think about splitting the atom. 2 Of science's biggest creations are based on splitting the atom (atomic bomb and atomic energy) and both of them have caused more harm to humans and the Earth than any benefits have been derrived.
History is full of this; vaccines to cure that hurt, medicines that do nothing to cure you, chemicals that pollute The Earth, technology that distracts to the point that this knowledge people talk so highly of cannot even be consumed and processed to a useful level by an ever growing number of young people.
Yeah. I won't lie. I like some of the things science has produced. But, like so many things out there, it is dangerous in the hands of humans.
Science is Knowledge (whereas Religion is (blindly) Belief). How can Knowledge be blamed? Sometimes it can be wrongfully applied, ok.
Yes, another one of the great superstitions of science; knowledge is good.
Ridiculous: knowledge enables informed decisions. Knowledge has saved your life on many occasions. Of course knowledge can be misused, like muscles can be misused to do violence. This does not make muscles bad.
The beliefe in science is just as riddled with superstitions and lies as any religion.
Nonsense.
People believe science is the answer to everything. Yet, its application is often more detrimental than the problem was.
Some people believe a lot of nonsense. Scientists don't believe science is the answer to everything. It is the route to the answers to all questions about the _general_ _behaviour_ of the natural world (even the parts relating to humans, which some people forget are natural as well).
That is its realm.
The goal of science is to overcome nature and the things in nature that threaten our health and well being.
No it is not. This is an error well worth flagging.
Science is about knowledge: _technology_ and _engineering_ are about using that knowledge. This includes fields such as medicine, which is an application of scientific knowledge.
How can this be right? How can it be right to continue finding ways to keep an ever growing and dangerous population of humans alive to consume and destroy nature?
You seem to be discussing policy issues and confusing them with scientific knowledge.
Or perhaps your point is that it is evil to have the knowledge to be able to grow more food, because someone might use it? This seems ridiculous. Even in the cases of the most dangerous technologies arising from science (eg nuclear bombs) these are emphatically the result of government policy, not science working in isolation. And of course, nuclear bombs are a technology, not science.
Asking how can science be blamed is about like asking how religion can be blamed for all the things people like to blame it for. When you look at science zealots and religious zealots, you will see, they are much more alike than different.
Except they are not. I have worked quite a few years in a scientific research in the public and private sectors, and I can assure you it is a mixture of being an academic researcher, a commercial consultant, and a source of information for governments to make informed policy decisions, and none of them is at all like being a zealot.
If this was intended to be ironic, it did a great job! Otherwise, not so great.
Oh, and the 2+2=4 cartoon is really neat!