/sci/ - Science & Math

Most people hid behind the whole 'God' thing.

Given that I rejected God from an age of 6ish, I probably would have been one of the minority of people who sought a rational, scientific explanation for the existence of life.

>>4438100

yes, but I would like people to consider what they would think if they did not consider religion. and if there is no way you could not give credit to a god, then say what you think gods purpose would be.

I probably would have assumed the reigning paradigm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9ImScQGAo

>>4438102
Do you think you would have actually have managed to come up with an answer?

>>4438099
Would I retain all of the memories I currently have?
If not how would that be me and not someone else completely?

>>4438107
yup, this guy's right

>>4438110

you would retain your skeptism and critical faculties. so you would still reject religion. and if you would believe in a god still, what would he be to you? a mad scientist? capricious?

There was a guy before Darwin who had pretty much the right idea...
do you mean before that guy too?

>>4438117
But see if I were born back before Darwin I would have been born to different parents and learned different things in school and likely have even gone to church.
So you can't just say I would retain my skeptism and critical faculties since I only possess such things due to many of the things that have happened in my life.
In other words if I was born back before Darwin i'd likely believe what the majority of people believed back then.

>>4438121

yeah, but he didn't really get it out there, right? didn't like 20 people read his thing on it? it was darwin/wallace who really got it known.

>>4438127
IIRC wasn't Darwin's primary contribution the idea of natural selection rather than evolution as a whole?

>>4438125

presume you had an eccentric uncle who taught you from a young age about how all religion is false, but he died before telling you his personal beliefs

>>4438130
If he's an eccentric wouldn't I have likely thought that he was just bullshitting me.
Also wouldn't my parents and pretty much everyone else I met told me how he was just bullshitting me?
Really I can't see any way I could know what that person would think without more information on their life.

>>4438135

you did not grow up using your critical reasoning, so you would believe what he said. you trusted him.

he was eccentric but also your role model, so you would not decide he is strange. he would be the only normal one.

and he taught you reasoning, and you realised this is a gift, so you trusted him. but now you must use it to answer the question

>Before Darwin (pre-1850's)
>Still believing in Darwin's ideas as they exist now (2012)
>mfw

rib

If I had been born before Darwin I would have done everything in my power to stop biology from ever developing as a science.