Chap wrote:subgenius wrote:ironically religion effectively does the same thing. Prayer, contemplation, and faith are all methods of self-correction. Reproducible results are manifest by the many shared and similar experiences...and like science, there are acceptable tolerances across results.
And for what it's worth, religion begins with the identification and admission of a problem...a flawed man.
This is ... embarrassing. I'll leave it at that.
Indeed. It's so cute that religious folk desperately want their beliefs to be taken seriously as a scientific endeavor. Meanwhile scientific folk are highly offended if they are accused of acting like a religion. Both groups respect the scientific process over religious "truths".