• WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Believe it or not, a majority of scientists in the United States believe in a higher power according to Pew.

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      8 months ago

      This is about the practice, not the practitioners.

      When I read your message, my takeaway is, “Science as a process is so reliable that you can take irrational beings who believe in a ghost father, teach them the scientific method and generate provable rational outcomes that yield progress.”

      The rational ‘machine’ is what matters, I could not care less about the irrational thoughts of the ‘gears’.

      TLDR, People are irrational, yep, even scientists. Thank goodness even irrational beings can follow a rational process.

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      8 months ago

      Isaac Newton was a christian. Seems like theres room to believe and also be awesome in science. But maybe its as rare as the Newtons of history are