Does Peer Pressure stifle the acceptance of the obvious?

You DON'T think skeptically nor scientifically about your religious experiences, rat, that much is clear.quote:How so?You immediately jumped to the "Godidit" conclusion WRT your laughing incident.

Did it ever ocur to you that just because YOU are not able to come up with a mundane explanation, doesn't mean that there isn't one?

You have been given several alternate explanations, but you have rejected all of them. I strongly suspect that you are going to reject any and all alternate explanations.

So, people rolling on the floor, laughing, has nothing to do with emotion?Your just having had a spiritual experience with your fellow believers had nothing to do with emotion?There are no emotions connected to your spiritual beliefs or faith at all?

Laughter is infectious.

You have been given several alternate explanations, but you have rejected all of them. I strongly suspect that you are going to reject any and all alternate explanations.

Well, MY point is that you, due to your bias, did a poor job of gathering facts, and you are do determined that God HAD TO be the explanation that you are blind to any other explanation.

But you aren't trying. You have already made up your mind, and then you have the gall to expect US to explain to you how God wasn't making everybody laugh.

Oh please, you get backed into a corner and now you drag out the Devil?

quote:Science is only the study of what is absolutly true and real.Incorrect.Science is a method of inquiry used to discover and understand natural phenomena. It is the most reliable one we have found thus far.

No, religion, being non-testable and relevatory in nature, is fraught with far, far more potential for error than science.

Rat, are you really going to say stupid things such as the above this late in the game?Come on, now.

That is not how the scientific method works at all. The scientific method requires constant verification from outside sorces and parties. It is the opposite of what you describe, in fact.

The same is true for every possible subject of study. How does it follow that science and religion are the same just because it's impossible to know everything about either in a lifetime?

Please explain to me how the fact that we are not all working towards "righteous goals" (whatever that means) shows that the scientific method is biased in favor of anything other than the evidence?Remember, you have to show that the METHOD is biased, because that is the claim you just made.

Almost all science is money driven, riverrat?Can you point to all of those wealthy scientists living it up in their vacation homes in Maui and in their penthouses in Manhattan?

And that is the great, great difference between religion and science.Don't you agree?

Religion needs to stop meddling and interfering with science and then all will be well.

Religion needs to stop meddling and interfering with science and then all will be well.

If you wander the world and ask a question of the laws of science, you get the same result. No exceptions.Ok, lets go ask the people of Hiroshima what they think of the atom bomb, then go ask an American.Its not the laws of science I have the problem with, its what we do with them.

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The majority of university science funding comes from entities like the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Tthese are publically-funded entities which are not administered by politicians, but by scientists.

Anyway, do you have some kind of evidence which shows that most scientists' salaries are paid by big businesses and the military rather than the universities most of them work for? If so, please present it.