Ibtissame Lachgar was sentenced to 30 months in prison last month after posting online a picture of herself wearing a T-shirt with the word 'Allah' in Arabic followed by 'is lesbian.'
On two occasions I’ve seen people flinch when they asked my religion and I replied atheist. Flinch, like I raised my hand to them.
As to your point on empiricism, religious people are skeptical of science because they think it’s another religion, one in competition with theirs. Like you, I can hardly get my head around that thinking.
I had a solid science teacher in elementary school who began each year teaching the scientific method and the difference between fact and opinion. Every year I’d think, “Yeah. We fucking know.” Judging by what I saw childhood classmates say on FB, the lesson didn’t stick for some.
Had 3 teachers that I can call the best, but Mrs. King changed my life in deep ways. She taught me how to setup an experiment, how to be exacting, how to asses my results, all that. She taught us the difference in an educated guess (an hypothesis), and a wild-ass guess. So much of that teaching applies to every day life. Look at people and politics. They can’t understand how science can make mistakes and still be valid. They view science as just another religion. They can’t discern fact from opinion. They think an hypothesis they don’t like is merely a wild-ass guess.
Thought she was old at the time, but she was really a young hippie chick that took teaching science seriously. I also learned that teachers can, gasp, get married!
On two occasions I’ve seen people flinch when they asked my religion and I replied atheist. Flinch, like I raised my hand to them.
As to your point on empiricism, religious people are skeptical of science because they think it’s another religion, one in competition with theirs. Like you, I can hardly get my head around that thinking.
I had a solid science teacher in elementary school who began each year teaching the scientific method and the difference between fact and opinion. Every year I’d think, “Yeah. We fucking know.” Judging by what I saw childhood classmates say on FB, the lesson didn’t stick for some.
Seems like a good teacher to me. They tried their best.
Had 3 teachers that I can call the best, but Mrs. King changed my life in deep ways. She taught me how to setup an experiment, how to be exacting, how to asses my results, all that. She taught us the difference in an educated guess (an hypothesis), and a wild-ass guess. So much of that teaching applies to every day life. Look at people and politics. They can’t understand how science can make mistakes and still be valid. They view science as just another religion. They can’t discern fact from opinion. They think an hypothesis they don’t like is merely a wild-ass guess.
Thought she was old at the time, but she was really a young hippie chick that took teaching science seriously. I also learned that teachers can, gasp, get married!