Are we all becoming pagan again?

[o_O.Q]

curl-6 said:

o_O.Q said:

everyone actually does, probably the most prominent example is that we defer frequently to experts that we assume know what they are talking about in various fields and occasionally with the passage of time are proven wrong

Weighing the opinion of a qualified expert with more significance than someone unqualified isn't an exercise in religious thinking though, it's simply applying the empirical logic that an expert is more likely to be correct than a non-expert. And there's nothing supernatural involved.

"Weighing the opinion of a qualified expert with more significance than someone unqualified"

the pertinent question here is whether the science and values at play are correct, this hasn't been the case many times in the past and in the future looking back on this current era more examples will probably arise

my point is just that we assume the paradigm within which the experts are operating is correct and to me that's silly because we obviously still have problems so we need to keep an open mind

"And there's nothing supernatural involved."

more than 95% of the observable matter in the universe cannot be accurately classified by our top scientists, if you classify supernatural to be anything outside of what we know and understand, i'd argue that the chances of it existing are pretty much confirmed