1) interconnectedness between species. Native American concern that damaging seemingly insignificant life form or smaller ecological niches and systems would affect humans was denied until it bit us in the ass
2) There are a number of Eastern Religious beliefs about time that fit rather well with Einstein's ideas about Time being a dimension and that change is essentially illusory: we are simply shifting vantage.
3) Pharmacology companies have for many years known that shamans and other folk healers were right about a wide variety of plant medicines. These medicines in many many cases were not found via empirical study or random sampling but via trance communication with the plants themselves. If you do not believe this check out some of the preparation practices used by indigenous persons involved in removing poisons and highlighting medically active compounds. It's like believing they won the lottery over and over to think they just ran around eating plants and noticed the healing patterns.
4) Acupuncture which came out of folk religious practices and is based on 'energies' not recognized by western science and meridians, also not recognized by Western science, which were 'perceived' (western quotes) by people who western science considered to be making magical claims, has also proven to be effective in the treatment of a wide range of illnesses.
5) claims by fakirs, yoga masters, Buddhist meditates about their relationships with their bodies and their ability to control all sorts or organ functions, endocrine release and suppression, the brain and so on were poo pooed and later turned out to be in systematically regular instances correct. (I could split this one up in to a number of different examples, but I will keep it as 1) I could add other numbers to include the health benefits that were attributed to these practices that have also turned out to be true despite denial by scientists in the beginning that this was not possible.
6) Dream interpretation and use in determining mental health issues and as non-random events. A standard shamanic practice not taken up (again) by Western authority figures until Freud got on the scene. I assume this will get poo pooed by everyone who thinks Freud is dead. But actually the followers of Freud who uses his ideas about dreams, defense mechanisms, the unconscious are doing very well out there; many of them have merged techniques with the cognitive psychologists and TEST THEIR IDEAS WITH SCIENTIFIC RIGOR and are having very high rates of success with clients. government grants, university positions, hospital positions and so on.
6)nature as healing. Indigenous predictions about the problems of city living and how nature 'heals' us has been and continues to be solidly documented by all sorts of studies relating to mental illness, stress, recovery from physical illness, sense of well being in healthy individuals and many, many programs are now in place in hospitals and communities where ill and recovered and burned out people are put in gardens or in other more natural setting AS A PLANNED PART OF THEIR RECOVERY. The 'need' and 'healing power' of nature and more fundamentally our interconnectedness with it was heartily poo pooed by scientists until their hippie brethren in the ranks began actually testing.
7) there are numerous instances where indigenous people attributed communicative or sensory abilities to animals that were beyond current technology to test and were poo pooed but later turned out to be true. Check elephant communication as one example. These beliefs of course are on the boundary between communal knowledge and religious knowledge, these facets of society not separated out so much amongst we pagans.
HOW does he know it was god and not NATURE?It has been posted that Carl Sandage wrote:
..They say I’m on some sort of religious quest, looking for God; but God is the way it’s put together.
___________________________how can u Expain science( I mean, what are your views).
Some people says modern science, Is there any science called old science
Let me know the difference please.
For all religions that last statement is as good as it gets..“ Originally Posted by Kaiduorkhon
It has been posted that Carl Sandage wrote:
..They say I’m on some sort of religious quest, looking for God; but God is the way it’s put together. ”
_____________________________
HOW does he know it was god and not NATURE?
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Dear Scorpius. Good question.
Maybe Sandage implies they're both the same.
Apparently you're on to that, and I certainly think so.
Best Regards,
- KO
I think most of the examples given above illustrate the need to understand our connectedness to nature. I don't think many biologists would poo poo that.
You seem confused between scientists and "science".1) interconnectedness between species. Native American concern that damaging seemingly insignificant life form or smaller ecological niches and systems would affect humans was denied until it bit us in the ass
2) There are a number of Eastern Religious beliefs about time that fit rather well with Einstein's ideas about Time being a dimension and that change is essentially illusory: we are simply shifting vantage.
3) Pharmacology companies have for many years known that shamans and other folk healers were right about a wide variety of plant medicines. These medicines in many many cases were not found via empirical study or random sampling but via trance communication with the plants themselves. If you do not believe this check out some of the preparation practices used by indigenous poeple's involved in removing poisons and highlighting medically active compounds. It's like believing they won the lottery over and over to think they just ran around eating plants and noticed the healing patterns.
4) Acupunture which came out of folk religious practices and is based on 'energies' not recognized by western science and meridians, also not recognized by Western science, which were 'perceived' (western quotes) by people who western science considered to be making magical claims, has also proven to be effective in the treatment of a wide range of illnesses.
5) claims by fakirs, yoga masters, buddhist meditators about their relationships with their bodies adn their ability to control all sorts or organ functions, endocrine release and suppression, the brain and so on were poo pooed and later turned out to be in systematically regular instances correct. (I could split this one up in to a number of different examples, but I will keep it as 1) I could add other numbers to include the health benefits that were attributed to these practices that have also turned out to be true despite denial by scientists in the beginning that this was not possible.
6) Dream interpretation and use in determing mental health issues and as non-random events. A standard shamanic practice not taken up (again) by Western authority figures until Freud got on the scene. I assume this will get poo pooed by everyone who thinks Freud is dead. But actually the followers of Freud who uses his ideas about dreams, defense mechanisms, the unconscious are doing very well out there; many of them have merged techniques with the cognitive psychologists and TEST THEIR IDEAS WITH SCIENTIFIC RIGOR and are having very high rates of success with clients. government grants, university positions, hospital positions and so on.
6)nature as healing. Indigenous predictions about the problems of city living and how nature 'heals' us has been and continues to be solidly documented by all sorts of studies relating to mental illness, stress, recovery from physical illness, sense of well being in healthy individuals and many, many programs are now in place in hospitals and communities where ill and recovered and burned out people are put in gardens or in other more natural setting AS A PLANNED PART OF THEIR RECOVERY. The 'need' and 'healing power' of nature and more fundamentally our interconnectedness with it was heartily poo pooed by scientists until their hippie brethren in the ranks began actually testing.
7) there are numerous instances where indigenous people attibuted communicative or sensory abilities to animals that were beyond current technology to test and were poo pooed but later turned out to be true. Check elephant communication as one example. These beliefs of course are on the boundary between communal knowledge and religious knowledge, these facets of society not separated out so much amongst we pagans.
There is a big difference in simply accepting a statement - Especially with no evidence backing said statement up! my reasoning has this as blind Faith!This is incorrect. Current biologists - those not tied in with industry - recognize this to varying degrees. What was pointing out were ideas that WERE NOT ACCEPTED BY SCIENTISTS BEFORE who poo pooed irrational pagans - for the most part - who believed these things.
Good Scientists via poo pooing "objection-ally" will always eventually eek out the facts... No matter how many religiously infected scientists dispute or defend whatever is inferred, The truth and facts always wins the day, simply because truth is conformance... The Pagans observed long ago nature and in today's climate science has the capacity to elaborate on those details, and here is the problem, Pagans insist on a magical nature, while science insists on all of the details which points out why its not magic!.Given that this has happened before, and we are not talking about a long time ago with many of the ideas, I think a little humility or better said, reality awareness, would lead scientists to believe this might continue to happen with certain ideas they poo poo now.
In addition a number of the post have to with health, human bodies, mind/body relationships.
The one relating mystical ideas to Einstein could have been broadened out to include many other ideas that have found support pre-QM and post-QM.
In fact ALL your examples can be seen as having undergone some similar process - of accumulation of evidence - despite not being able to understand the exact detailed chain of cause-effect.
This is a very good argument. And you are right, I am being critical of scientists and not science. Scientists have tended to assume that a non-participartory experimental outsider vantage is the way to learn. They have been wrong to limit things like this. Nevertheless, beliefs based or exploratory methods once or currently considered dead ends, irrational by scientists DID PROVE to be valid ways of gathering knowledge. I think the process was often vastly more intuitive than you are making it sound. I do not think there were tremendous amounts of double blind tests and that solutions were found less by trial and error but by intuitive guesses. On the other hand I am not upset by your version. Your version would have shocked and been mocked by scientists at the time first encountering these beliefs and the practices that led to them.
Your point about pharmacology and plants... you will have been unaware of the vast swathe of trial-and-error that goes on in discovering new foods.
Sorry. I have come to this conclusion through my own experiences in nature, with healers from other cultures and through talks with a relative of mine who is an ethnobotonist who works for the pharmaceutical industry. I don't think you are aware of how complicated the preparation processes are for a wide range of 'folk cures'. Trial and error would have ABSOLUTELY DISCOURAGED the use of many cures because 1) the plants are extremely poisonous untreated 2) the required steps: heating, cooling, mixing with other plants or minerals at various stages required either consistant lottery winning miracles by tribes. Further these plants would have been avoided by animals.
It's a dirty little pharmaceutical industry secret: many of their people in the field are dumbfounded by the finds indigenous healers have discovered. Trial and error and watching animals just can't cover it.
Your issue seems to be with people called "scientists" in the modern understanding of the term - the white-coated people in labs. These people generally have specific agendas - and will poo-poo things as a result where their true scientific stance will actually be one of no opinion. They should be agnostic on any element of science that they have not directly examined.
I agree 100%. The poo pooing and speculating on the liklihood of certain hitherto unproven phenomena is not scientific. Look at the short post i made directly above yours, the one I am quoting here. That is precisely what I meant when I said they should be embarrassed and agnostic. Hell, we are even using the same 'metaphor'.
So don't confuse science with scientists.
Science (specifically the scientific method) is merely the methodology of reaching rational conclusions through collection of evidence, generating theories for prediction, and testing predictions.
you might be surprised to hear it, but I agree very much with what you are saying here.
And to be clear. I have a great deal of trust in the scientific method. I do think there are other ways of gaining knowledge.
Laidback is saying that magic is impossible because of the conservation of force and momentum. He does not know what certain phenomena referred to as magic are. He does not know if these might IN WAYS NOT CURRENTLY measurable or known EVEN adhere to his limitations. He assumes that he can determine the likelihood of phenomena given his knowledge of science (primarily Newtonian when it comes to physics) and the technology we have available. He thinks he knows WHAT MAGIC MUST BE and therefore can rule it out.
The difference would appear to be that the religious believe that there is more than meets the eye, whilst the scientific believe that, potentially, there is not.
Wrong! Instant communication implies magic and or a miracle that conforms to religious like reasoning.. No doubt about those religious Institutes with their dumb lecturers!3 Science is beginning to find particles that, apparently, pop in and out of existence. For want of another word, could these particles be merely changing ‘dimension’. As an analogy, or model, which science works with all the time; take an infinitely thin circle on a sheet of paper. If you flip it through 90 degrees to ‘end on’ it apparently vanishes, but it is no less real for being invisible.
4 I can’t remember the name of the experiment, but if you send two particles of in different directions and, at some distance, measure their properties they are always identical; different every time you do the experiment but always identical to each other, no matter what the distance. This implies instantaneous communication, the speed of light not withstanding.
In today's climate this IS not the case!Both religion and science are only, after all, trying to make sense of what they perceive, what may exist that they don’t perceive is, at present, only speculation. The above points would hint at that limitation on our sense of perception.
Science versus God is however another question entirely and I may add something on that in time.
But it happens.Wrong! Instant communication implies magic and or a miracle that conforms to religious like reasoning.. No doubt about those religious Institutes with their dumb lecturers!
Any chance of putting that into English so that it's comprehensible?Now before we move on with respects of their ongoing separation, lets think a little more in-depth with respects to the WHOLE universes structure keeping in mind the fact that when an air-crafts higher potential with respects to our upper atmospheres lower pressure (potential) is allowed to return to the lower Potential.. Say a window or door is opened! This simple fact provides proof that a void simply is not possible.. In fact even Space and or Deep space consists of mass and if it didn't the electromagnetic waves via implied meeting velocities which also implies how mass is possible simply would not be possible! And for this reason Space really is referred to as a NEAR vacuum..
NOW~ When we deal with the theoretical particles, the above over sight by treating the environment as mass-less is what causes problems, because most assume the area implied as a particle is with momentum, when the facts are the area implied as a particle is actually experiencing meeting velocities which increases the areas potential to which is propagated to where there is a lower potential in mass, just like the above aircraft analogy... Another good experiment that points out why particle theory is a flawed model is by doing "Young's" Double slit experiment..
So relativity doesn't count?Anyway the point is everything in reality must conform to Newtons Laws - No ifs! and No buts!
Science is hindered by religion?Science indeed for the most is in the pursuit for the truth, but currently Science is also grossly hindered by religions, and in particular, one that I have reason to believe is the most backward of the whole Damn Lot!..
Well you got that bit right.Take a gander at any good forum and it becomes obvious the world is over run with half R's-ed educated individuals that don't have a real clue..
I am going to point out with a question.. which is going to have your sorry rz sorry you ever stated it!Wow!
Laidback seems to know very little about about anything.
But it happens.
No! and let me apologise yet again for my ramblings, but if you really want to Know what I was on about, perhaps you should research Electronics..Any chance of putting that into English so that it's comprehensible?
Of course Relativity counts! In fact relativity is a critical component in all Physics!So relativity doesn't count?
Then why do I need to provide further evidence?Care to provide evidence?Laidback said:Science is hindered by religion?
Well you got that bit right.