Religious Laundry.

We live in a world full of description. Everything has a label, everything has a price. If something is in our world we have to define it in order to understand it. In order for something to exist it must have substance, and this substance of matter comes from the words used to describe what is seen. Everything must be known, and if something can't be known then it's automatically thrown into the religion basket. Now let's look at science. Science is a method used to understand our world through experimentation; trial and error, correlation, prediction with evidence. In order for a scientific hypothesis to become a reality it must be proven through the scientific method. Therefore, science avoids getting thrown into the religion basket because it's entire process is composed of description, which is understood as a reality to us because description can be seen. So the only reason science cannot be written off into the category of religion is because it is built upon a process that makes it appear as though it has substance. Science is quickly hidden under the blindness of description. If its very structure is masked in visible substance yet the result of a scientific proof is still described as a theory and cannot be known for certain, why is science not tossed into the religion basket? I think it's time for some scientists to wash their dirty laundry.


-burton 261E