/sci/ - Science & Math

The same reason that they believe in the state.

I hear all the time on this board how science does not address metaphysical questions. Yet that does not make those questions go away. Something needs to fill that void, and something always will.

>"I'm scared to die one day because I can't accept that I'm not always going to 'be'"

>>9934227
You can't just tack "scientifically speaking" onto any question. This is nonsense, this is outside of any fruitful application of the scientific method.

>>9934249
It's not just that. I think everyone at least wonders how it's possible for the universe to even be here. Most people are not just afraid that they themselves will die, but also that life on Earth will be disrupted or ended by some cataclysm. So some have "faith" that despite all odds somehow we'll make it. This is the root of all religious feeling and why religion is so weridly ubiquitous.

>>9934227
Because religious people breed like rats.

https://www.unz.com/jman/liberalism-hbd-population-and-solutions-for-the-future/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjuBRaLYWnA
https://phys.org/news/2011-01-religiosity-gene-dominate-society.html
https://futurism.com/genetic-idiocracy-genes-associated-with-high-education-are-becoming-rarer/
https://www.unz.com/isteve/cochran-harpending-paper-on-amish/

>>9934249
That idea only exists because of religion in the first place though.

>>9934276
That's a myth. Birth rates only directly correlate with the development level of a country, not with religion.

>>9934297
>That's a myth. Birth rates only directly correlate with the development level of a country, not with religion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_country
notice how the most religious countries are all undeveloped third world shitholes.
>don't call them shitholes!!!! those are respectable countries!!!!
I live in one so I know what I'm talking about. Nothing is to respect in a country where its people are mentally retarded.

>>9934297
>not with religion
Do you have any actual statistics to back this up that you didn't pull out of your ass?

>>9934265
You overestimate the average person. Most of them don't think beyond their close family and friends let alone the fate of humanity and the universe.

>>9934303
>the most religious countries are all brown and majority Muslim
It’s almost as if it’s a race thing and not a religious thing

>>9934227
Because there is no hard evidence either way to prove or disprove a being that created the universe, it leaves room for people to keep believing.

>>9934249
>they disagree with me because they're afraid

dats some scientific ad hominem right there.

>>9934242
>I hear all the time on this board how science does not address culinary questions. Yet that does not make those questions go away.
>I hear all the time on this board how science does not address artistic questions. Yet that does not make those questions go away.
>I hear all the time on this board how science does not address relationship questions. Yet that does not make those questions go away.

Spoiler: not everything has to be science you autist.

>>9934227
not this shit again

>>9934547
pic related

>>9934592
>>>9934547
>pic related

Reporting them doesn't make them any less autistic.

>>9934592
Announcing a report is against the rules