Yep, programming. It used to be mathematics and logic, nowadays we just include the whole of NPM and pray to the Omnissiah.
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This probably doesn't count, but Sosigenes of Alexandria was an Ancient Greek astronomer who designed the Julian calendar in 45 BC. This was replaced in 1582 AD with the Gregorian calendar (named after Pope Gregory XIII) and is still in use today. Of course both were found by science, but it took the weight of the Catholic Church to push for the more accurate calendar.
I think the vast majority of scientists, at least computer scientists, would argue against the efficacy and accuracy of the Gregorian calendar.
It's more of a "we're stuck with it" situation than a testament to its scientific veracity.
The Gregorian calendar is pretty solid actually. Other than a leap second every few years, it'll stay in sync for a few thousand years. You can easily calculate all leap days in a one-liner.
365 is semi prime, so we could do a 5 day week, but that's pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. There isn't a lot to improve on the Gregorian calendar
- leap days only coming at the end of the year, not in the middle
- 5 day week
- 73 day months
- 30 day months with 5 non month days
Don't get me started on timezones
And that's the way science should be, with more data and better tools, you adjust and make things more accurate. I'm not sure what the efficacy issues are, but it's my understanding that current UTC leap seconds are put in place to reflect slight variation in the rotation of the earth. It is done in reaction to the earth's movement, so not something that could be predicted 450 years ago.
at least computer scientists, would argue against the efficacy and accuracy of the Gregorian calendar.
Agreed. If I had it my way, basically everything would be using unix time.
I refuse to believe anything before Jan 1 1970 even happened
And if anything did happen, it wasn't any good.
Signed integers are the best integers.
Agh you sound like a C programmer. Just have a function do it for you.
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"Can you name me one thing that was found by science that was later replaced by religion?"
Yes, it's called politics.
US politics. Across the rest of the world, while politics may still be dumb out there, at least they're more likely to keep god out of it.
Simulation hypothesis is just theism with extra steps.
Come at me bro.
"I think God created the world" pitchforks raised "...WITH A COMPUTER!" pitchforks lowered
Simulation theory makes no inherent moral prescriptions or assertions about the ultimate origin of the universe - it just rolls everything up a level - This universe is a simulation inside the real universe... What created thecreal universe? We're not trying to answer that.
Theism tends to make moral prescriptions and point to an immutable god - This universe was created by God... What created god? It's god, dude.
This is why simulation theory and theism are compatible - there's no reason both can't be true - though we can never know if either is true, so just get on with your life and try to be a decent human.
Simulation hypothesis is not science.
It is part of science, it's an untested (and currently untestable) hypothesis. Such thought experiments can be very useful. Running through the consequences (and possible experiments) can sometimes give useful insights into other areas of physics.
The problem is when layman take the scientific equivalent of a debate joke and treat it as gospel. It's similar to what happened with the flat earth society (started out as a debating joke, and got overrun by idiots).
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That's debatable. It's a logic based hypothesis that scientists are looking for a way to falsify it.
Until empirical measurements can be made, it's not science.
I don't follow. What does empirical math have to do with it?
Thank you. I didn't edit my post and have no idea where you saw "empirical math," so I was as confused as you were. I did however realize that a way of exploring mathematical concepts can be scientific. Using existing rules of math like algebra or calculus has led to us discovering new ways to use math and even new mathematical concepts. The process of long dead mathematicians discovering things like geometry and calculus was scientific in that they had a hypothesis based on past details and measurements, tested it, and found it applied to the real world. Math itself is a construction that doesn't constitute science, but science can be done in the field of mathematics. This is because science is fundamentally a process.
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the ancient greeks knew the world was round, knowledge witch was then replaced by in vast circles during the middle ages.
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religion has often replaced scientifically proven facts, wich is mainly due to religions powerful ability to not have to make sense and still be acceptable.
now as for religion actually disproving science, those occurences can be counted on zero hands.
A knowledge witch would curse you with knowing every embarrassing thing you ever did.
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Hmmmm... Replacing scientifically developed vaccines with religiously advocated horse paste. How'd that work out for them?
Common sense gets replaced by religion all the time ...
Sanity?
Yeah. Sanity.
Creationist "science" is like those troll physics posts, except they aren't funny. Like at all.
At least someone saying this acknowledges that science is a thing, so that's something I guess.
Better than the opposite. I always find it funny when super-religious people deny science instead, as if their god (usually a practically omnipotent being with a 30,000 IQ) would want to micromanage everything going on in the entire universe, instead of just making everything run by a set of physical laws on its own.
Someone once said.... if the human race was completely destroyed and evolution brought back sentient beings, every law of science would be rediscovered, but not one religion would return as it is.
Please rename this sub to antitheism
I think anti-abrahamic would be more appropriate. You don't tend to see a lot of memes against Buddhism, Wikka, Jainism, or so on. They tend to poke fun at Christians, Muslims, any other religion that can't take any jokes or criticisms...
Sounds like your taking anything named "memes" too seriously. Also, you should check your sodium level.
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