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pessimizerlast Wednesday at 11:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

According to your model, scientists who believe in God are anti-science.

That's almost weirder than declaring that 15% of people not believing in anthropogenic global warming is some sort of crisis. It's a theory that seems to fit the data (with caveats), not an Axiom of Science.

It's actually bizarre that 85% of people trust Science so much that they would believe in something that they have never seen any direct evidence of. That's a result of marketing. The public don't believe in global warming because it's "correct"; they have no idea if it's correct, and they often believe in things that are wrong that people in white coats on television tell them.


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godelskilast Wednesday at 6:46 PM

  > According to your model, scientists who believe in God are anti-science.
In a way, yes. But every scientist I know that also believes in God is not shy in admitting their belief is unscientific.

The reason I'm giving this a bit of a pass is because in science we need things that are falsifiable. The burden of proof should be on those believing in God. But such a belief is not falsifiable. You can't prove or disprove God. If they aren't pushy, they're okay with admitting that, and don't make a big deal out of it then I don't really care. That's just being a decent person.

But that's a very different thing than not believing in things we have strong physical evidence for, strong mathematical theories, and a long record of making counter factual predictions. The great thing about science is it makes predictions. Climate science has been making pretty good ones since the 80's. Every prediction comes with error bounds. Those are tightening but the climate today matches those predictions within error. That's falsifiable

Ray20last Wednesday at 3:51 PM

Climatologists have certainly invested much more in PR than geologists. So much so that their activities now look more like a global cult than science.