lee wrote on Dec 5
th, 2015 at 5:10pm:
beer wrote on Dec 5
th, 2015 at 3:41pm:
Hopefully, more old & religious people pass the way to their heaven. Leave ratio of independent smart people grows 10% higher.
So Old people are not smart people? Or religious people are not smart people?
A new study from Rice University-
'“No one today can deny that there is a popular ‘warfare’ framing between science and religion,” said the study’s principal investigator, Elaine Howard Ecklund, founding director of Rice University’s Religion and Public Life Program and the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences. “This is a war of words fueled by scientists, religious people and those in between.”
The study’s results challenge longstanding assumptions about the science-faith interface. While it is commonly assumed that most scientists are atheists, the global perspective resulting from the study shows that this is simply not the case.
“More than half of scientists in India, Italy, Taiwan and Turkey self-identify as religious,” Ecklund said. “And it’s striking that approximately twice as many ‘convinced atheists’ exist in the general population of Hong Kong, for example, (55 percent) compared with the scientific community in this region (26 percent).” '
http://news.rice.edu/2015/12/03/first-worldwide-survey-of-religion-and-science-n... Your comment is a good example to show the major difference between religious people and independent people.
In this forum, under political view, my argument has nothing to do with science.
The point is whether your mind is free, smart, independent or not. You can see, religious people easily bring up and quote someone's opinion to supoort yours. It is simila to you quote something from Bible, it's your thinking habit. To be contrast, people think more and independently, start from some known poins, find evidences or observe facts, abstract some theories out then summarize some results. The results are very likely to be wrong, but it's your true own opinion, it can later be corrcted through practice, your way of thinking, your common sense get more and more close to truth in this process. You mind is open in this case. You don't need an authority above you to guide.
Having a religion, having a god, having a queen, having a big boss to tell you what you should do, that's the fundamental difference. Can you understand?
Scientists say they believe in something, it is very likely they don't want to be different to other religious people arround them. Saying something doesn't mean they really agree something. Any adult knows this, if you don't know, suggest you watch more TV news, to see the performance of those politicians more, they are very good at this.
Science doesn't refuse existence of supreme ruling power, it is exactly what science is looking for. Can you think and answer what is science can not accept from religious teaching?