• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You yourself called it “outdated science”

      My mistake. My second pass at it was much more accurate.

      You are completely waxing over that EVERYTHING in religion gefs boiled down to, “skydaddy says so”

      Nope, I’m deliberately alluding to that fact and how it makes religion inherently unscientific. Sorry for being too subtle.

      That does not and will never mean that is the actual etymology of the rule

      We don’t have any proof that scientific experiments were conducted and thoroughly studied to reach the conclusion either. Science is as much about the methods as the result.

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          1 year ago

          The premise is right answer, wrong reason

          Not even that, no. Rotten seafood ≠ all seafood.

          The point is that modern science still says they were on to something

          Nope. Modern science explains things that they didn’t know.

          They arrived at something that wasn’t completely incorrect in the same way as they arrived at “that burning bush talking must be sky daddy rather than my imagination”.

          That’s not “being on to something”. That’s “blind hen can also find corn” territory.

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            1 year ago

            Hi! I think your misunderstanding comes from the fact that religion, is not a mechanism for creating new knowledge, it is a collection of shared beliefs between people.

            A better comparison would be faith VS science, or religion VS scientific understanding.

            While most religious beliefs are faith based at their core, it’s easy to speculate that certain religious and cultural stigma arose after repeated observation of the natural world (Alice ate shrimp, Alice falls ill -> eating shrimp is against the will of God). Not as efficient as controlled scientific testing, but it ultimately lands you on the true statement “Eating shrimp is unwise and likely to get you sick”.