the scientific method is effectively a kind of prayer any way
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No Gottservant. The scientific method is the antithesis of prayer.
Prayer: kneeling and appealing to an essence for which we have no proof of its existence to intervene on your behalf. The outcome, or lack thereof, is always interpreted as the will of said essence, even if it's exactly the opposite of what you wanted. No particular effort is made to determine if said prayer and the result have any sort of causality relationship.
Scientific method: actually doing what you're interested in learning about, and seeing if the results match your expectation. Doing said experiment multiple times to ensure causality. Questioning whether the process is valid.
Yeah, very similar.
To what deity?. Sarcasm apart, what he tries to mean, I think, it's that, since scientific method makes an hypothesis that has to be tested, it's like faith in a way. Fallacy, nonetheless, because, if the test fails to corroborate the theory, the theory is considered false. With prayer, who knows...........
Sure, and boiling an egg is effectively kind of making a nuclear weapon anyway.
Gott must be desperate, to hire a servant who's this stupid.
PRAYER FOR THE MOCKERY OF DRIBBLING WRONG GODS
My Dear Lord Athe, we were wondering if you, in your rational invisibility (undoubtedly some sort of future cloaking technology and not magic), could fix it so that the mighty Sky Beast (He of continual drooling fame) can inspire His dribbling legions to even greater lows of desperate stupidity.
O bountiful (obviously through the application of scientific methods) Athe, we enjoy great mirth in the crazy antics and irredeemable silliness of the Beast Men and their psycho leaders. May they publicize their daftness for ever more. Let their idiocy drive them to flailing madness as they flounder in howling gales of worldwide laughter.
Amen (unless new evidence can be shown)
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