Posted on 06/30/2008 4:41:23 PM PDT by Kevmo
The crevo threads typically degenerate into name calling. Recently, the Religion Moderator declared that "science is not religion", and did not publish the criteria for such consideration. My suggestion to the evolutionist community has been to acknowledge that Scientism is a religion and start to utilize the protections offered under the religion tags that are different than other threads (due to the intensity of feelings over religious issues). So this thread is intended to be an ECUMENICAL thread under the tag of SCIENTISM. The intent is to keep discussion civil.
I would like to see a straightforward discussion over the topic of whether scientism should be treated as a religion on FR. I'll try to find the links to the adminlecture series about what the ground rules are on ecumenical threads, and I'll copy some recent interactions that show the need for scientism to be treated as a religion on FR.
Science is not a religion.
It’s fun to read these old posts.
But Scientism is.
It’s fun to read these old posts.
***I agree. I see that we were discussing your idea of an ‘academic or Focused’ thread approach. What I said was, “Judging from the behavior on this thread, I don’t think an academic or Focused thread would work.” I see that there is even more evidence of that conclusion, even though I have even more desire for such a thread. What do you think?
We don’t know if such threads would work, because we haven’t tried.
How do we try, unless the mods agree? The religion mod is the only one who’s been working on what I called earlier, “his bag of tools”. Unless you have some way of getting the mods to go along?
I don’t believe so. What are you backing up that claim with?
Upthread we discussed it.
Would you agree with the following precept? Anything that you put your faith in can be a religion.
People have been putting their faith into science. That means it is, as we discussed upthread, a nascent religion.
I prefer to look for the bible for clues. I suggest you search upthread for Mystery Babylon as a major inductive bible clue.
Who puts their faith in science? It is always changing.
Scientism per se could be called a belief and therefore would qualify.
Your antagonists on this thread have broken a number of Religion Forum guidelines for "ecumenical" threads - including attributing motive, mind reading, making it personal, carrying disputes over from other threads and antagonism which is not allowed on RF threads labeled "ecumenical."
Everyone: discuss the issues all you want, but DO NOT make it personal.
Click here for more guidelines to the Religion Forum.
Who puts their faith in science?
***Plenty. Even some here on FR. For instance, there was a whole group of Freepers who started Darwin Central as a breakoff. Basically, a bunch of scientism believers.
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