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@WoodshopHandman it really is amazing how many people want 'scientific proof' for things they have literally seen with their own eyes
@lain @WoodshopHandman Relevant ancient drawing by olden times RDN user:
@nerthos @WoodshopHandman once again recommending this guy in general and this video in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljcnSkKpSXQ
@lain @WoodshopHandman I SAW A BABY DRIVE A TRUCK
@lain @WoodshopHandman back in the 'atheism wars' days it was a common trope for christians to scream "SCIENCE IS A RELIGION". This of course didn't go anywhere because they weren't smart enough to explain what they even meant by it.
Many years later we see religion is an evolved (on a societal level) adaptation that happens to keep things in relative order. It's not perfect but if you yank it away you get a power vacuum that gets filled by whoever is charismatic enough to exploit all those same vulnerabilities in the brain. This effectively results in a bunch of disjointed secular cults. "Science" in big air quotes is the one most widely held since the scientific process actually works and gives credibility when leaders cite it by appeal to authority.
So yeah, to most people, it is a religion.
Many years later we see religion is an evolved (on a societal level) adaptation that happens to keep things in relative order. It's not perfect but if you yank it away you get a power vacuum that gets filled by whoever is charismatic enough to exploit all those same vulnerabilities in the brain. This effectively results in a bunch of disjointed secular cults. "Science" in big air quotes is the one most widely held since the scientific process actually works and gives credibility when leaders cite it by appeal to authority.
So yeah, to most people, it is a religion.
@RustyCrab @lain @WoodshopHandman anthropologists always understood this it was just midwits that didnt