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In reply to the discussion: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Tells Bill Maher That Anti-Science Liberals Are Full of Shit Too [View all]The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)We complain about religion, but human rights don't actually exist either. It's just a bunch of stuff written down a while ago that everyone is supposed to follow.
Science is a concept invented by human beings. Applying it to the world can also lead to problems. Take the Green Revolution as an example, since there's discussion about food. Sure, that helped keep more people alive. Great, now there's more people that need more resources, contributing to both the overpopulation issue, as well as the overconsumption issue. Both of which contribute to the climate change issue.
Can we honestly say that climate change is an objective problem? To what? The universe and planet don't care if you live, suffer, or die. We care because it's about us, making it subjective.
Going to the Earth being 10,000 years old. It might be. How do we know? There's no objective year out there somewhere. It's the amount of time it takes the planet to go around the sun. That's completely subjective, and only matters to humans. Maybe it's 10,000 galactic years old. Although, shockingly, 10,000 years ago is about when civilization really got started. Wow, weird how that lines up, give or take a year.
Point is, human beings make up a whole bunch of shit all the time. Language being another example. We're lost in our abstract imaginations.