/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15491004
In scientism, truth and value are quite literally in numbers. "Many people believe X." "The consensus is X." "My colleagues agree." "There are a number of books on the subject." "I have received no complaints." "There is much support." Truth is by popular vote. The more Nature does it, the more right it is. It is the authority of DNA - the authority of the tradition of Nature itself. For the adherents of scientism, numbers represent the only real value, and these become the very substance of their life.

>People become numbers. The numbers become their horizon - their all. They are just copies.
- Kierkegaard

If you explain to these numerous fellows that they are constantly, in every waking moment, appealing to the fallacy of the number, you are wasting your breath, because they don't know anything except the number. They cannot hear you, because existence requires contrast. And for this same reason such people don't exist as individuals. They have no self, and no soul, since the soul is precisely the self, and is the genius in man.

Samuel Butler accurately describes this soulless culture - the culture of the number - in his novel Erewhon, when he visits the hallowed "Colleges of Unreason".


>"It is not our business," he said, "to help students to think for themselves. Surely this is the very last thing which one who wishes them well should encourage them to do. . . ." In some respects, however, he was thought to hold somewhat radical opinions, for he was President of the Society for the Suppression of Useless Knowledge, and for the Completer Obliteration of the Past.

>>15432231
>>15432242
Science and academia really rots your brain.
It is impossible for God to be inferior to his creations and unable to love or care.

>>15430757

>>15172017
>literally has to pretend "does not exist" does NOT mean "nothing"
The atheist copium-fueled mental gymnastics is off the charts. Always is, really.

>>15172090
>please explain my illogical atheist belief system to me
Not my problem. A prime mover (God) is the only rational explanation as proven by logical evidence.
>inb4 where did gawd
The prime mover always existed by logical deduction. It didn't "come" from X.

>>15007391
The evidence is all around you, but you are just willingly blind like 99% of soientists.

>>14958382
"You are stupid" is not an argument.

>>14762193

>>14722474

>>14718284

>>14701530
>meanwhile, I fully believe in abiogenesis with absolutely zero evidence, I believe in high probability life exists outside our solar system with absolutely zero evidence, I believe I am intelligent with absolutely zero evidence
many such retards

>>14675526
>t. buddhist

Explain simulation theory

>>14658794
>if God decided to just exist instead of hiding away
If you still deny God at this point you would deny him if he came down from heaven and said here I am (he already did once actually). You would pretend he's an alien or a rouge program in the matrix simulation or the Chinese playing a prank on us or some other delusion on par with your current denial-based delusion.

>>14626508

>>14612362
>You need to prove the supernatural with natural science bro, otherwise I will downvote you
retard alert

>>14598450
Science is the art of telling a story(that thing soientists call a "theory") and tricking people into believing it's true. There is no difference between science and science fiction.

>>14504992
Science has to do with the imaginative world, while inventions have to do with reality.
Science is the art of bullshitting, making people believe they owe it all to "science" instead of inventors and the poor people who built everything.