{"id":3824,"date":"2009-10-11T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2009-10-11T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T21:00:28","slug":"i-believe-ill-have-another-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3824","title":{"rendered":"I Believe I&#039;ll Have Another Drink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldofweirdthings.com\/2009\/10\/10\/if-you-believe-in-science-youre-doing-it-wrong\/\">if you believe in science, you\u2019re doing it wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The post-modernists can complain about the limitations of our senses and our technology but what seems to be lost on them is the cardinal rule of the scientific thought process. If you have no proof for it, you can\u2019t insist that it\u2019s real or objective. Because we don\u2019t know something, we can\u2019t randomly jam anything we want in there and pretend it\u2019s a good idea. And this is exactly what we do when we involve deities for which we don\u2019t have a shred of proof into processes we otherwise understand and want to explore in farther depth. To equate a way to describe the natural world through objective means with simply inserting one\u2019s own opinion in the gaps of our knowledge and chalk both up to belief is an absurd assertion that can only be made by people who don\u2019t understand the nature of science and can\u2019t wrap their minds around the fact that it\u2019s simply a methodology by which people accumulate and connect facts, not a set of answers to questions or ready made opinions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if you believe in science, you\u2019re doing it wrong The post-modernists can complain about the limitations of our senses and our technology but what seems to be lost on them is the cardinal rule of the scientific thought process. If &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3824\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}