• DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Ironically, an individual who uses language to identify with and articulate a particular sub-category of human belief systems (i.e. atheism), is attempting to impose order in an indescribable universe.

    • an_onanist@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      It depends on your definitions. Religion puts nonexistent intentionality into the system by adding a diety. Science explains the existing system using the language of mathematics.

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        5 months ago

        Except science doesn’t explain the existing system. Science is the process of converting observations into language and indentifying reliable repeating patterns. It does not explain why.

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    5 months ago

    Religion aside, if the universe is fundamentally unpredictable, then science is impossible.