/sci/ - Science & Math

People think science is opposed to religion because modern science is basically empiricism and empiricism is opposed to religion for various reasons.

Although the founders of empiricism were religious, though. Strikes me as a bit hypocritical considering how empiricism is directly opposed to all the methods people use to rationalize religious belief (denying a priori reasoning, intuition, and revelation and instead requiring testing and physical proof)

Again, this isn't to say that science itself is anti-religion, but the core concepts behind religion, such as empiricism and also rationalism and skepticism, are all anti-religion.

>>9176763
>Why do people still believe in blank slate if most of your mental inteligence is determined by race and gender?

Tell me what do you know when at the exact time of you birth? Does you IQ or your race endow you with mathematical truths, laws of mechanics, or every day matters of fact when you are fresh out of the womb? What sort of innate ideas are your mental slate filled with back when you physically could not articulate your own thoughts.

>>5806301

that, and also it's totally plausible that intense religion indoctrination could be a form of mental illness due to the nonstop stress of Hell, incuring His wrath and the like.

>>4812437
this