Science is a Religion with David Sloan Wilson - Biologist

[KillerMime64]

Science changes, religion does not. Science wins!

[MumblingMickey]

"Science is a religion in the primary sense as defined by many dictionaries in the first or second definitions"

Don't ALL those definitions require as an absolute a belief in the supernatural? Otherwise playing poker is a religion...or ones political beliefs...or even ones trust in ones parents or kids?

At the very least try to stop reinterpreting the dictionary! This guy is laying out a simile...a metaphor....

Do you know what a metaphor is? Well its in the opening sentence of the vid.

[MrRhood12]

I am not using religion as a metaphor. Science is a religion in the primary sense as defined by many dictionaries in the first or second definitions. Metaphorical definitions (fishing is his religion for example) are normally a 3rd  or 4th or later definition.

[protoborg]

@MrRhood12 Not even close.

Definition 1: ..., especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies,... Thus, science does not qualify as a religion.

Definition 2: a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion. Again, science does not qualify as it is NOT a set of beliefs. It is a set of observations. Plus, all social interaction has a set of practices.

[protoborg]

@MrRhood12 By your logic, brushing my teeth would be a religion because it involves a set of practices.

Definition 3: the body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices: a world council of religions. Admittedly, you said this one doesn't work, but regardless, science does not fit this one.

[lovesXtoXspoog]

Are you using relgion as a metaphor?