原帖由 shutterbug 於 2009-1-6 15:23 發表 
You think your method is more scientific than believing a religion? I disagree. Before you actually go and have DNA tested, what you think is evidence might not be real evidence. People can give f ...
You bring up another very interesting aspect, and that is the ability to perform independant verification. Using back the somewhat offensive example. If the birth certificate is faked, I can go test DNA, and if the DNA result is faked, I can test it independantly somewhere else. This is the power of science, it is because the scientific method allow for independant verification of any particular claims. As in science, nothing is 100%, it allows for more evidence to be corrected, such that the probability that the claim is true will be enhanced as more evidence is collected.
Let's use another example. If Einstein lied about one of this claims, we can always have another scientist to reproduce the his result to independantly verify his claim. In fact, we can have hundreds of thousands of scientists of different background to redo his experiments and redo the math. This is the power of science. Even kids can easily do the experiments and do the math themselves to reach their own conclusion. Nobody, no books, and surely no god is required in the process.
On the flip side in religion, particularly Christianity, independant verification will be very difficult. If a priest lies, or the Bible lied, or if 'God' lied, it is almost impossible to independantly verify the claim. The heirarchy of power is simply dangerous, as stated by one of my points in page 3.
Of course, as chunsh have suggested, many 'immature believers' will start claiming that 'god' never lies because 'god' is 'God' and they believe in it, thus the claims are always true and independant verification is unecassary etc etc. But it is apparent that Science is one of the most efficient methodology in guarding against false claims and verifications. |
發表於 2009-1-6 17:27
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