Science versus Religion?

[wolven7]

I've never fullly understood why we can't look critically at the state of science and nature, and the state of religious belief, and understand that the two are inextricably linked.

Some say that you ctell a "Just-So Story" when you give religious explanations. I say that this is the case about every story we tell.

Can we no longer think in terms of literal metaphors? You heard me, and I know damned well you know that I mean more than you think you want me to mean, by it. Something can be true, without having happened. You know this, too.

So. Some stories are more internally coherent, than others. But if they teach a lesson, if they hang together, if they... Well. If they do the job.

What difference then, between science, religion, philosophy, history, whathaveyou? We are creating the stories that we like the best, that we want to make sense. We place the most effort, and argue to the best of our ability, for what we think is the best explanation.

Scientific method gives us consistency, because we put the stories together in such a way as to make them make sense.

We do not know anything.

Prove me wrong.

Comments

Hah

[karishi.livejournal.com]

No refutiation here, I spent this evening playing with dice. I started easy, rolling a character's stats. I rolled low, so I said, "A little more would be good," because I was worried the stats would be too low to make it playable, so I got 13. That was higher, so I said, "Nice. Higher." So I got a 17. Impressed (and pleased with the general spread thus far), I said, "High," and this time it was four sixes. I got worried again, for exactly the same reasons, that the character would be no good as an example character, so I said, "Low!" and got 6, and that was dropping a 1. At this point truly interested in what was going on, I said, "High?" and got another 17.
Then I said, "Can you do fourteen?"

They could. They did. I was afraid. I think my favorite was the "higher toward me" where I rolled four dice and they had lower numbers the farther they were from me.

These are my results for the night. I'm thinking to do a statistical analysis to determine how many times I have to be able to repeat it for it to be considered statistically significant.

Re: Hah

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I think that's a great plan. Also, let's see how many people we can have watch, before the waveform collapses, as it were...