That's always what I fall back two when people compare science to a religion: religion relies on faith - sticking to your beliefs no matter the evidence presented. Science will readily toss out everything they know and start over if something is proven to be wrong.
That's a pretty narrow definition of religion. For a significant, but less vocal part of religious folk, faith and science are more or less orthogonal. Scientific exploration and explanation doesn't eliminate faith, and religion doesn't deny science.
For me, the main intersection between Faith and Science is in the realm of ethics....
Religion has nothing a priori to do with ethics. Religion is like a virus that associates itself with the evolved ethical faculties in neurotypical humans in order to get reproduced. FWIW, the atheists and agnostics that I know tend to be at least as ethically advanced (in my opinion) than the typical god believer and often much more so.
We are (almost?) all atheists with respect to the vast majority of gods that have ever been worshipped by humans.
I'm not sure if these count as documentaries, but...
If you are at all interested in physics quantum/classical and have a background in calculus and a little linear algebra, watch Leonard Susskind's lectures on physics. You can find them on youtube (just search for "susskind"). Hours and hours of good physics fun. He also has a couple of good books related to the videos: "The Theoretical Minimum" and "Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum". He has a way of getting right to the point without leaving out the mathematics. I would put his books right up there with Feynman's "Lectures" as something that every aspiring physicist should read.
Also, some of the older "Ted Talks" before they started to get popular and watered down. Daniel Dennet and Steven Pinker are really reat. Just google "ted talk Daniel Dennett" and "ted talk Steven Pinker".
In college, I was into math and physics. Though I enjoyed chemistry in high school, my freshman chemistry book just sucked the fun out of chemistry.
Fast forward about 20 years. I've read "Caveman Chemistry" and "The Joy of Chemistry" as well as "Cooking for Geeks". All of these really brought fun back into chemistry. Recently, I got around to reading "General Chemistry" by LInus Pauling. My reaction was: "Wow, if I'd read this book in college, I might have taken physical chemistry".
I'm with you AC. I use linux on the desktop and have for years. I can't stand either KDE or Gnome. I use lightdm to manage logins and fvwm2 for a window manager.
I do use konsole, though. I originally used konsole, then the background texture feature went away, so I moved to gnome-terminal. Then gnome-terminal removed the background texture feature, but by that time konsole had added the feature back.
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That's always what I fall back two when people compare science to a religion: religion relies on faith - sticking to your beliefs no matter the evidence presented. Science will readily toss out everything they know and start over if something is proven to be wrong.
That's a pretty narrow definition of religion. For a significant, but less vocal part of religious folk, faith and science are more or less orthogonal. Scientific exploration and explanation doesn't eliminate faith, and religion doesn't deny science.
For me, the main intersection between Faith and Science is in the realm of ethics. ...
Religion has nothing a priori to do with ethics. Religion is like a virus that associates itself with the evolved ethical faculties in neurotypical humans in order to get reproduced. FWIW, the atheists and agnostics that I know tend to be at least as ethically advanced (in my opinion) than the typical god believer and often much more so.
We are (almost?) all atheists with respect to the vast majority of gods that have ever been worshipped by humans.
I'm not sure if these count as documentaries, but...
If you are at all interested in physics quantum/classical and have a background in calculus and a little linear algebra, watch Leonard Susskind's lectures on physics. You can find them on youtube (just search for "susskind"). Hours and hours of good physics fun. He also has a couple of good books related to the videos: "The Theoretical Minimum" and "Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum". He has a way of getting right to the point without leaving out the mathematics. I would put his books right up there with Feynman's "Lectures" as something that every aspiring physicist should read.
Also, some of the older "Ted Talks" before they started to get popular and watered down. Daniel Dennet and Steven Pinker are really reat. Just google "ted talk Daniel Dennett" and "ted talk Steven Pinker".
In college, I was into math and physics. Though I enjoyed chemistry in high school, my freshman chemistry book just sucked the fun out of chemistry.
Fast forward about 20 years. I've read "Caveman Chemistry" and "The Joy of Chemistry" as well as "Cooking for Geeks". All of these really brought fun back into chemistry. Recently, I got around to reading "General Chemistry" by LInus Pauling. My reaction was: "Wow, if I'd read this book in college, I might have taken physical chemistry".
Nothing says success like the juxtaposition of "Germany" and "technological innovation involving a hydrogen filled container".
I'm with you AC. I use linux on the desktop and have for years. I can't stand either KDE or Gnome. I use lightdm to manage logins and fvwm2 for a window manager.
I do use konsole, though. I originally used konsole, then the background texture feature went away, so I moved to gnome-terminal. Then gnome-terminal removed the background texture feature, but by that time konsole had added the feature back.
It was a great editorial, but the ending kind of left me hanging.