Are we all becoming pagan again?

[o_O.Q]

curl-6 said:

o_O.Q said:

"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

At any point we can only go with the best information we have at the time, and the best method for attaining that is one which is empirical for the simple reason of practicality; if something can be proven to be true, that obviously trumps just assuming it's true,

And no, I wouldn't classify it that way, I'd classify it as the assumption of the existence of something for which there's no scientific basis.

"At any point we can only go with the best information we have at the time"

yes that's my point, but as we grow and learn our paradigm changes because we incorporate more knowledge into our understanding

"if something can be proven to be true"

nothing can really be proven to be true though, we make the assumption based on repetition

"And no, I wouldn't classify it that way, I'd classify it as the assumption of the existence of something for which there's no scientific basis"

if our science can't classify or measure something, how could you argue that there is a scientific basis for it?