Sharpe's Opinion
Thursday, 8th Jan, 2009
ScienceDaily suggests that we’re pre-disposed to either accept scientific or religious explanations of the universe, but not both.
A person’s unconscious attitudes toward science and God may be fundamentally opposed, researchers report, depending on how religion and science are used to answer ‘ultimate’ questions such as how the universe began or the origin of life.
What’s more, those views can be manipulated, the researchers found. After using science or God to explain such important questions, most people display a preference for one and a neutral or even negative attitude toward the other.
It’s like Elvis or The Beatles, like Cheese & Onion or Salt & Vinegar. You can like both – but you can’t like both equally. Somewhere along the way you need to make a decision. Of course, I also have to point out the irony of the quote “As far as I know, no one has looked experimentally at an opposition between belief in science and religion”…
Via Give Me Something to Read. Also, LFaT’s Quote of the Day runs on a similar theme today.
Comments
Don’t you oppress me. How dare you insult my Cheese & Onion based faith. Cheese & Onion is my cultural heritage and your offensive comment is demeaning and hurtful.
There is nothing else for it. Onionists must unite to destroy the armies of the bitter saltists. Our way of life is at stake.
“What’s more, those views can be manipulated, the researchers found.”
Wow, if ScienceDaily has just discovered that, perhaps we should all be praising God for crippling the Large Hadron Collider.
Cheese & Onion is, of course, the work of the devil. True happiness can only be obtained through Salt & Vinegar.
patently
January 8, 2009 at 2:33 pm