... Creationism is unfalsifiable. ...
Creation
ism : the "ism" shows normally always an ideolgy. Ideologies are in general closed systems of thoughts, Falsifyable within this system of thoughts - not falsifyable outside of this system of toughts.
But the Christains religion is not an ideology - while "darwinism" is the same time often nothing else than an extremist racist ideology. On the other side: The real scientific theory of evolution is not an ideology too.
But the discussion in the internet seems only to be a discussion from ideologists with ideologists, who share a common bad "knowledge" about the belief in god and about the Christian religion as well as about the basics of natural science and the methods and essential arguments of natural science in case of biology.
Internal falsifiability is all fine and good,
1. It's not fine and good - it's the criterion for an ideology - a closed system of thoughts.
but not at all what I'm discussing, and not relevant to the discussion of science vs religion.
2. A discussion "science vs religion" alias "philosophy vs spiritualiy" is not a discussion about easily comparable things.
The scientific method is PURELY a method of proving hypotheses false to eliminate possibilities and push closer to affirmative understandings. If a hypothesis cannot be disproven through experiment, you're no longer talking science. That ought to be not only sufficient reason to separate the teaching of science from creationism, it ought to be the beginning and end of the entire f'in discussion.
3. The methods of natural science are a rpduct of the philosophy empirism. Is empirism the same like the creator god, who made more than only thsi what is able to be subsejct of empirism?
I simply wish these "I'm an atheist, debate me!"
4. Hä? ... ah sorry: Eh? ... The belief in atheism is not a very interesting belief. I call atheists normally people, who don't believe to believe.
kids would give it a fuckin' rest.
5. Kids? And the F-word? ... Can it be you have not a big idea about how to educate children? ... And what have children now to do with your ideas about your atheism and your ideas about anti-atheists?
It's like there's people trying to play tennis on a football field, and rather than simply explain to them that they're playing their game in the wrong setting,
6. You try to tell people they play a wrong game, because you don't like their rules?
the football players start scoring touchdowns to show the tennis players how inferior tennis is to football.
7. And? If Tennis players play with a football and have fun ... who cares?
If people would simply remember that science is a method for FINDING, and not a synonym OF truth, and certainly not a label to categorize the beliefs and viewpoints of educated/enlightened people, that would go a long way to clear this nonsense up.
8. Natural science is a method to find what are the [mathematical] laws in the nature and what's right or wrong in this context. If we find a natural law on Earth then this natural law is the same in the Andromeda galaxy and every other place and time of the universe.
Lol!
Spooky laughing in the beginning.
It's weird to see a response broken down line by line like that, which nonetheless rarely addresses the points made in any of the lines it breaks down. Lemme see if I can clear some of this up for ya. I'm unaware of any quick way to break the format of the post like you did, so I've taken the liberty of numbering each line in the "quote", and I'll use corresponding numbers in my reply.
1. When I said all fine and good, I was dismissing it as irrelevant to any point
A. Aha. You think what I say is irrelevant - thatäs why you will not waste time to think about this what I think.
I was making in the discussion to which you were responding. I wasn't arguing with you about the nature or definition of ideology.
B. Or with other words. You are an fanatics, who tries to speak about something, because you think something about me what has nothing to do with my person.
2. Science vs religion is NOT philosophy vs spirituality. Philosophy is not science.
C. What's wrong. Physics is a part of natural philosophy for example.
Science is a method of testing hypotheses through experimentation.
D. Or withother words: The spirituality of physics is mathematics and the god of physics is teh experimaent. But not all sciences are able to make experients. It's for example impossible to make in history experiments. What woudöl be today without Alexander the great? Ignoramus, igorabimus.
Philosophy, like religion, includes the exploration of the unfalsifiable.
E. So what?
Mind you, I'm not trying to downplay the importance of philosophy, or to imply the superiority of science over any of these other concepts. However, philosophy and science are NOT synonymous.
F. What's again wrong. The mother of all sciences is philosophy.
And that first comparison, science vs religion, IS actually an easy comparison to make.
G. No.
One is a method of experimentation, the other is a system of beliefs.
H. What a nonsense. Just a moment ago you said
"Philosophy, like religion, includes the exploration of the unfalsifiable." Now you say philosophy needs experiments.
3. No, empiricism is not like the creator god, assuming for the sake of argument that there is, in fact, a creator god. Empiricism is a philosophy, the creator god is a being that created the universe. Quite frankly, this question's answer is so obvious that I'm guessing the meaning got lost somewhere in translation.
I. A philosophy is a way of thoughts. So the empirism of physics is basing on meta-physics.
4. I think we largely agree, here. I think it's foolish for one to confidently declare that they don't believe in God, even if they believe that to be true. We aren't wired up for not believing in something, and it generally just requires the right circumstances to draw that belief out of someone. It's like they used to say after WWII, there's no atheists in a foxhole.
5. When I said kids, I wasn't literally referring to children. I only used the term to emphasize the immaturity of crusading to prove the stupidly obvious truth that some particular religion isn't scientific.
J. Eh?
Anyone claiming that their religion is science doesn't understand their religion, and anyone trying to apply science to religion doesn't understand science. And, I gotta tell you, it's awfully presumptuous to think that you can extrapolate someone's understanding of education, from the mere fact that they used "fuck" and "kids" in the same sentence.
K. I'm sure I'm right. Do you have children? Ask them and their mother what they think about your arts to educate your children.
6. This has nothing to do with whether or not I like the rules of any game. The tennis/football thing was a metaphor about simply acknowledging when someone is playing a different game than you are, rather than simply playing back at them as though the two different games are at all compatible. Scoring touchdowns against someone who is playing tennis is utterly meaningless, even if they're mistakenly trying to play tennis on your football field. Get it?
L. Sure I got it. To play is a serios thing. And everyone has to follow the same rules. Aye, Captain.
7. I'll try and cut you some slack based on English not being your native language,
M. Yeah - I'm privileged.
but good lord man, this was obviously a metaphor. If I apply your question back to the point I was illustrating with my metaphor, you're essentially asking me this: If the people who want to teach creationism in science class have a good time doing so, then what's the problem? The problem is that unfalsifiable ideas aren't science and shouldn't be taught as science, regardless of how much fun it is for the creationists.
N. Sorry - but we don't have a big problem with religious education in our schools here - better to say: we don't like to miss religious education in our schools. And we also don't like to miss natural sciences.
8. I wouldn't be so confident that the laws of nature are uniform throughout the universe. That's something that we're a long way from being able to verify.
O. What a brainwashing bullshit to say so. We never found any exception from this rule.
Wow. For all your spooky laughing, you seem to be having a really hard time understanding what I'm saying. This time letters in stead of numbers.
A. This response only makes sense when you cut the quote off as you have. Obviously, saying that something is irrelevant to the conversation at hand isn't the same as saying that it's irrelevant. Ideology, it's exact definition, and where/if it diverges from religion, are all topics that I consider to be incredibly relevant, just not relevant to the conversation of why religion shouldn't be taught as science. Maybe stick to what I've actually said rather than selectively cutting sentences apart and then disingenuously using manipulated quotes to try and extrapolate my character flaws?
B. It's not about fanaticism, nor does this have anything to do with what I think about you as a person, true or otherwise. The reason I say that the nature/definition of ideology is irrelevant here is because the only point I was making is that creationism isn't science. My argument for this point doesn't require any acknowledgement of the concept of ideology. It only requires acknowledgement of the fact that creationism is unfalsifiable, and therefore not science.
C. Natural philosophy might discuss physics, and the conceptual categorization of physics as we know it today may even have emerged from natural philosophy. Natural philosophy still isn't science, and even where the concepts explored in natural philosophy overlap with those explored in physics, the natural philosophy discussion still isn't a scientific one insofar as the scientific method isn't the basis for the ideas being expressed. It's this simple: Scientific method = science. Not scientific method =/= science.
D. When you say that not all sciences are able to make experiments, you demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of what science actually is. If a subject cannot make experiments, it isn't science. That simple. History can't be verified or debunked via experimentation because history isn't a science. Maybe one day the physicists invent a time machine and history becomes scientific, but until there's some way to fully verify historical claims, it ain't that.
E. So what? So philosophy is not a science.
F. The mother of Jesus is Mary. Mary is not Jesus. Science emerged from philosophy, but philosophy is not science. How is this hard to understand?
G. Yes.
H. Again, if you would use ENTIRE quotes in stead of chopping them up for effect, I wouldn't have to explain this. What I said was, "And that first comparison, science vs religion, IS actually an easy comparison to make. One is a method of experimentation, the other is a system of beliefs." SCIENCE vs religion. I don't believe that philosophy requires experimentation, which is precisely why I've insisted several times now that philosophy isn't science. Try to keep up.
I. Ah, I see what you're saying, now. I don't know about creator God, but it definitely had a hand in the birthing process.
J. I don't know how to make it much simpler than that. I wasn't literally referring to children. I was just calling them "kids" to emphasize the childishness of it all. Sometimes I refer to myself as a kid for similar reasons.
K. Based on an exchange of 2 posts on a political message board, you're SURE that you've accurately guessed what, if any, preferences I have in methods of education and the relative effectiveness of those methods? LMFAO. I'd love for you to explain the reasoning behind that analysis, Sigmund.
L. Nah, you don't get "it", if "it" refers to the point I was making. "It" was never about the importance of adhering to rules. "It" was about the fruitlessness of expecting people playing a separate game to adhere to the rules of your game. This conversation is starting to make me wonder if I've stumbled onto that very territory, cuz you're clearly perceiving a different conversation to be taking place than the one that I'm having.
M. Zing.
N. That's solid policy. Religious and scientific education are both incredibly important, regardless of what one believes.
O. It's brainwashing bullshit to say that we haven't verified the uniformity of the laws of physics in every corner of the known universe? Lol! I hate to break it to you, but nobody's ever brainwashed someone else just to make them skeptical. Seriously, though, the fact that we haven't disproven this uniformity is NOT verification that it's true. We've never sent a human further away than our own moon, and the furthest travelled probes that we've ever sent out are barely past the edge of the sun's magnetic field and tens of thousands of years from ever approaching the nearest star, let alone another galaxy, let alone the edges of the universe. So yeah, we haven't ever disproven this rule, but in all fairness, we still have just a teensy little bit of universe left to explore and learn about before we can rule out that possibility.