Has been curious about it for a while, so made this thread, intended it to be mainly about your view on science in general.

What is your posture about science? Are you a science kind of person or not?

For me, it only goes as far as we go. Yeah, there has been great things accomplished but there has been lot of mistakes as well.

I liked it a lot when I was younger, but as I got to know more about how it works, I have became more moderated about it.

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Science is awesome! There's no doubt about that. But I don't like people who are crazy about science and treat it like some kind of religion.

I greatly dislike "textbook science." So much of what they rammed down my throat in school is subject to debates I never heard about. Theories were taught as fact and while misconceptions of early scientists were ridiculed, the thought that anything in modern science could be wrong was unheard of. The only part I liked about science was arguing with the teachers (who, for some surprising reason, always seemed to like me...)

I am a breath of insanity in a world of chaos.

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I'm always fascinated with science and the stuff they come up with.

Science interests me, and yeah, great things have been accomplished, yada yada yada, but it still fails often.

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It's interesting, especially some of the wierder theories.

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Science is the best thing there is. I prefer highly complicated theories, that are born from miscalculations and mistakes but still contineu to develop, over crazy religious freaks that burn on stakes everyone that dares to disagree.
Just imagine the silly Jordano Bruno he thought that earth spins around itself and the sun, death of agony and pain was rightfully deserved for him.
Of course there is also a third thing between science and religion - wilderness.

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I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
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Science 0___0 reflects the effort to increase human understanding of how reality works,i studied it for years yet the definition seems so extraneous to my mind.Science is,well, always accurate at the present,(it's obvious that if you can figure out anything wrong, then what you've just get to know, is the current science of yourself), and you may find the knowledge of the ancient ridiculous, but believe me, what they (Aristotle,Galilei or even Newton and Einstein) saw is always part of the true nature, and if you can understand what they thought in their time, you will understand their awesomeness ( i did and i knew 😎 )

And,hmm,people may think nothing is impeccable, but at the very moment they can not realize any error, it becomes faultless for them, and for certain people at a different level of perception, it becomes impeccable for the whole human ( at that time).

Science needs belief, but science as a religion ? it had never came across my mind, in my (probably biased) opinion : scientific method make its purview becomes the portion of reality which is independent of religious, political, cultural, or philosophical outlook & the greatest thing for me 😳 .

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Used to interest me as a kid. Not anymore, really. I don't mind reading about certain things, like how the human senses and anatomy works, but when it comes to atoms, molecules, neutrons and stuff like that, I couldn't give a damn. I appreciate the work of scientists, but I'm more of a dreamer than a realist. Not everything can be explained through scientific means.

Yes, I think science is something man made. It's really just rules to patterns to observations we've made. And the greatest evidence to that is that it keeps growing as we keep learning about new stuff, and of course, some of the things we thought we knew are suddenly proven wrong.

I really like science, especially the small stuff, organic chemistry, molecular and cellular biology, that kind of stuff.
It's rather interesting, the more chemistry you learn, the more stuff you start to recognize on the active ingredient label on stuff you eat or use.
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(sorry, but now I'm going to sound like a douche)But then the more you learn about this stuff, the dumber people sound when they misunderstand things... and you really want to try to understand their point, but you can't get around trying to correct them about something they probably don't care about... :(

Empirical truths are not truths at all. Until we have empirically proven everything there possibly is in the universe can we say that science is something that can be considered truth. until then, we can pretend we know things but im not convinced

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For now it is the highest kind of knowledge available,
since unlike pretty much everything else, it holds
no mysticism and isn't content with leaving anything unexplained
or just telling us to ignore those details.

I respect science. It has brought us a lot of power and possibilities
as well as reorganised causality.
It is the only thing that helps us to recover when we
are barely clinging to life. After all, I am an eliminative materialist.

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Theories were taught as fact and while misconceptions of early scientists were ridiculed, the thought that anything in modern science could be wrong was unheard of.

Alas, that is how it has always been with everything, be it isms,
science, christianity, astronomy or voodoo. The ideology that reigns
is seen as the truth. Scientist however, are very eager to see their theories pulverized. They aren't afraid that they might be wrong. They pretty much want to see how somebody shows they aren't right.