Theology

[BANE]

It's kind of insulting to say "science did this" or "science did that".

Science is a methodology. It's people who do things.

It'd be like saying "Hey, see that Ikea bed? Yeah, the included instructions did that".

[DoomRulz]

Science is the tool people use. Without it, people wouldn't have accomplished anything.

[BANE]

Ok...

[Crazy Rich]

The point of this was what, exactly?

The point being that atheism is a gay thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpuRcmPnSTM#ws

[DoomRulz]

Ok...

Well think about it. Science is only applying a name to phenomenon that has always existed. It's a tool we use. Had we not developed said tool, humans wouldn't have progressed in the world.

[Crazy Rich]

Though we have benefited from science that's not entirely accurate, unless you're a droid.

[BANE]

Ok...

Well think about it. Science is only applying a name to phenomenon that has always existed. It's a tool we use. Had we not developed said tool, humans wouldn't have progressed in the world.

But it's useless without the innovative, inspired and diligent minds who use it.

Like a hammer. Or a set of Ikea bed instructions.

So why credit the tool?

[DoomRulz]

Because without the tool, the bed wouldn't have been built.

[Sabby]

This is why I try not to misuse the word Atheist. It gets enough misrepresentation from both the willfully and genuinely ignorant.

Atheism = lack of belief in a God. There, someone has to restate it ever 3 or 4 pages, but that's what Atheism is. That can mean a rejection of God (God is not real) or a mere lack of belief (I'm not sure). Atheism has absolutely zero stance on anything other then this one issue.

To say Niel Degrasse Tyson is an 'advanced Atheist' because he has more to say on the matter is like saying chocolate milk is an 'advanced milk' because there's more then just milk in it.

Most of the time when someone misuses the word Atheist, they really mean Humanist, Naturalist, or just Skeptic.

Speaking of hammers...

I have dubbed him Hammer of God

[Cal427eb]

Ok...

Well think about it. Science is only applying a name to phenomenon that has always existed. It's a tool we use. Had we not developed said tool, humans wouldn't have progressed in the world.

That's not what science is. Science is the study of phenomenon. It isn't the phenomenon.

[Crazy Rich]

Because without the tool, the bed wouldn't have been built.

Without the mind, there would be no tool... 

[BANE]

Because without the tool, the bed wouldn't have been built.

You don't understand.

Noone ever understands.

[Sabby]

I think you guys are looking at it wrong. Instead of trying to figure out which spawned the other (was it the science or the science guy?), doesn't it make more sense that they are two parts of one thing? Humans make sense of the world, and they are always trying to make that task easier. The scientific method is the inevitable result of that.

[DoomRulz]

Ok...

Well think about it. Science is only applying a name to phenomenon that has always existed. It's a tool we use. Had we not developed said tool, humans wouldn't have progressed in the world.

That's not what science is. Science is the study of phenomenon. It isn't the phenomenon.

Yes, hence why I said it's the tool we use. For example, science didn't discover gravity necessarily, as gravity itself has been around since the dawn the time. Science just allowed us to give it a name.

[BANE]

No it didn't.

A person gave it a name. Newton.