'bout time!

So it's week 3 and I've finally got around to starting my "journal" for Gens4010 Science and Religion. Being the non-computer geek that I am, this seemed like a spiffy way to go about it.

The first thing I wanted to say something about was a quote that was brought up in a biology lecture, philosopher Karl Popper said that the thing that distinguishes scientific thought from all other kind of thought is "Falsifiablilty - the capacity for an idea to be shown wrong." I love the way he puts it! It's a fantastic idea because I've encountered so many people that say that they are "too scientifically minded" to believe in the possibility of certain things - such as God, or anything else non-physical. It seems to me that they are not so scientifically minded if they have an inability to embrace the scientific method, that an observation is made, a hypothesis is formed, a theory is tested and if it's not supported then you go back and theorise again - if when a theory, even if it has been held up by evidence for a long period of time, is shown to possibly not be true, or not apply in a certain situation, if it cannot be reviewed again, then science, and those who think themselves to be scientifically minded, become "bliks", they hold onto what they want to believe whether the evidence supports it or not, they become the kind of stubborn people that the world hates because they are not open to suggestion, they make science something it was never meant to be - a man-made religion rather than a search for knowledge.

Science doesn't oppose religion, nor should it become the religion.

That's my piece for today =)