Scientific literacy and scientism

lolwut

not right

Yes, it is. Blind trust is trusting someone without good reason. Earned trust is seeing previous behavior, seeing that previous behavior was trustworthy, and affording some amount of trust that future behavior will be trustworthy. Entirely different things. Are you trolling me here?

no difference blind trust is always a silly thing no matter how you try and rationalize it

And you're an idiot.

no i'm not an idiot, you can TRUST me ;)

>science are probably using the same parts of their brain that Christians worshiping Jesus in the 1700s would have used?

This is a really big issue that I don't think is being addressed seriously. The areas of the brain associated with religious belief are evolved (most likely for adaptive interactions in groups) religion is the cultural substructure placed atop these fundamental brain structures remove that you don't get rid of religiosity because the brain structures that mediate religious style belief are still there people just form secular religions.

what those priests taught couldn't be proven at all , everything they said was opinion. granted everything ever said or published is opinion, scientists have some sort of empirical data to support their arguments and theories. that isn't really "faith based" like the priests but more of a logic based way of thinking. i feel like saying "faith based" is implying we blindly follow science and obey everything scientists say. if we did that there wouldn't be science, we all know that when scientists discover a "concrete" thing they immediately search for a way to prove it wrong or find a loop hole, that isn't even close to what the priests did.