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Originally Posted by azxten
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In my opinion the "science crazed" portion of society has forgotten that science and technology are supposed to exist to serve humanity. Instead we're entering an era where humanity is serving science and the end goals aren't very clear. The same risk exists with our business and financial institutions. Do the banks and corporations exist to serve and uplift humanity or does humanity now exist to serve and uplift the banks and corporations? These institutions are entities in and of themselves just like you are composed of the living cells in your body.
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Science isn't an institution. It's a method used to learn how things work. I think that's a pretty clear goal. You first wonder how or why something happens and you come up with an idea. For instance, you might wonder where wind comes from and maybe you think that it could be trees sneezing. You then test that idea and see if the idea fits, you might throw chili powder on a tree to induce sneezing and when they don't sneeze, you come up with another idea and test that until you get to the real answer; areas of high air pressure push air into areas of low air pressure. And even once you have that answer, you test it multiple times to see if your results are consistent. Then you give it to other people to test to see if they can get the same results too.
Science and religion are the same thing, except religion doesn't bother to test the ideas. I am confident that as our understanding of things improve, through the scientific method we will find a way to test the existence of a god or gods (though probably not in our life times). I am also confident that whatever is found out won't be consistent with the views you have now.