Someone on my so-called friend's list on facebook posted the old doozy about "Einstein" having an epic rap battle against his "science professor" and smiting him and for once and for all proving that god is real, and that science - especially evolution is as fluffy and as weak-sauce as your lord and savior always told you it was.
I'm not going to reprint it here...although you can hit it from my snopes link in my first comment....
I'm going to copy and paste because trying to read pages of screen-capped facebook text sucks balls.
Ren: "Pathetic,
some people will just post any old bullshit on the internet and attach
someone reputable's name on it to try to give it legitimacy" - Mark
Twain
Original Poster - Fair
enough Ren lol Einstein aside I liked the argument! I have faith in
God & I've never seen, heard, felt, tasted or smelled him. April 16 at 10:11pm
I probably should have asked her how one would go about giving god this blowjob that would make him known to all the senses at once....but decided not to.
Then one of her friends decided to elaborate on how he liked the argument because science requires as much faith as religion.....
What? Um...no...... I'll let my next comment do the work here.
Science does not require faith. Unless you are just playing word games like the student in the story.... (the heat vs cold and light vs dark examples) I suppose you could say science requires faith if you mean in the sense that you have to trust that the scientists that have done the studies and reported their results and the people peer reviewing them have done so with proper care and attention. But I don't think that's the kind of faith you're talking about.
As for the professor having no brain ... childish at best and easily tested scientifically. You could have him undergo a trephination, take a look and observe his brain first hand. Nowadays you could use an imaging device such as a CT scan or an MRI to visualize the brain. Or you could take a look through the history of medical pathology and see if anyone has ever been autopsied that naturally did not have a brain but was alive anyway. You could do experiment on animals that are similar to humans and see if any of them don't have brains...and then perhaps since they do....you could see what happens if you take them out. Science in a case like this only requires faith if you are too lazy to ask the right questions and do the work necessary to test them. I suppose that's a little closer to the faith religion requires but since science does not do that it's not a great example.
Not in science class, but I was definitely taught in high school that religion was a way of trying to explain the world around us. But it was presented with the example of a religion that tried a little harder in this regard than the abrahamic religions. The greeks. The world was balanced on the shoulders of Atlas, Thunder was Zeus. The sun was Apollo riding his chariot across the sky. The bible doesn't really try to explain a whole lot about how things work....it's more a guide for acting morally (2000 years ago).... There's a kind of generic "god did it" vibe to answer any "how did that happen?" questions....but that's not really an explanation.
The biggest difference between science and religion, is that science does not rest. Even the theory of gravity....which is pretty well understood....they're still trying to find the particle that may or may not guide it. That's awesome. How about the model of the atom? There was the dalton model, followed by the delicious sounding plum-pudding model, which upon gaining more information was replaced by the rutherford model, and so on. With new information, data, and evidence, old theories go by the wayside and new ones are made to replace them. This is not faith. If you had faith in science you'd eventually say "you know....this is enough...I think we got it this time..." then write it down and burn at the stake anyone who questioned it. ;)
Religious faith is a bit different. There is no new evidence. Unless you're a mormon.... they got a whole bunch of new info relatively recently....but with nothing but faith to back it up, the christian mainstream says they're wrong. The best faith can do is examine what's they've always had and reinterpret it.... which is where you get the folks who think the bible should be taken literally and intact and is a 100% accurate historical document....and then the others who look a little closer and say....."you know....there's really no way to fit that many animals on a boat". Or...the protestant/catholic thing.... in the esteemed words of Lisa Simpson It always comes down to transubstantiation versus consubstantiation."..... Or the Jew/Christian/Moslem thing....
I apologize for not addressing the evolution question more directly....my university courses were heavy on the teeny-tiny sciences (chemistry, bio-chem, physiology) and light on the big picture sciences (biology, zoology etc). However, there is a fairly solid body of evidence supporting evolution and while it is too slow a process for any one person to observe, the evidence is there to support the theory. And as new evidence is found, the theory will be modified. That's not faith, that's fact.
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