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Originally Posted by renormalised
they doubt themselves and others when they see something mysterious or unusual, like ghosts, ufo's and aliens etc etc, yet they're perfectly willing to believe in and go along with religion. Swallow it hook, line and sinker. Give yourselves some credit.
That's what annoys me about scientists when they dismiss things like this out of hand or come up with some "logical" explanation. The reason why they don't deal with these things and then ridicule or explain away what people see is not because of some "scientific rigorous" or "methodical" way of studying things. Or because they know what reality consists of. They dismiss what people see and hear because they themselves don't know what's happening and because it lies outside of their accepted views of what constitutes reality. It's intellectual arrogance and fear which makes them do this. .
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I agree with you on the religion issue, people do accept this stuff with absolutely no evidence to back it up. When they see things or talk to dead people they're idolised. Think Moses and the burning bush, Joan of Arc talking to saints, Mary Magdalene seeing the resurrected Jesus.
However I can't agree with you on science. I think the very opposite. Science actually goes about attempting to discover the reason that things happen. If it can't be unraveled just yet, then it is said to be unproven and not fact one way or the other. The very open-mindedness of science is what I find attractive over the close minded religious views.