• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Nobody is saying that people should be judged by their religion. People here are saying Religion itself encourages anti-science and bigoted views.

    Secondly, it’s absolutely unscientific to believe that the lack of disproof is sufficient evidence for belief. This is fundamentally unreasonable and is just as much proof as saying that pigs can fly when nobody observes them.

    No, religious people are not morally wrong for being religious, and they are not to blame. Religion itself is.

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      10 months ago

      Listen everyone! According to cowbee, we should make sure that from now on, nobody will ever put out any hypothesis ever again! It’s absolutely unscientific! Any claim should be absolutely 100% correct and if not, we should leave it at there!

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        No, that is not what I’ve said.

        Believing firmly in a hypothesis without confirmation of said hypothesis is not sound. Again, pigs flying when nobody can see them, and firmly believing in it.

        This gets additionally dicey when religion is used as a tool to restrict women’s rights, and uphold homophobia, transphobia, and racism.

        The scientific method works by creating a hypothesis, and testing it to verify. It does not work by creating a hypothesis and firmly believing in it until its disproven. You take an agnostic approach until confirmed one way or the other.