# Examining things yourself vs. taking other's word for it **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 22, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examining-things-yourself-vs-taking-others-word-for-it/586424 "2011-06-22T14:17:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examining-things-yourself-vs-taking-others-word-for-it/586424/21 "2011-06-22T18:27:59Z")
Before debating science and evdience with **kanicbird** , read this: > [@Believers: Why are you so sure of your beliefs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-why-are-you-so-sure-of-your-beliefs/543965/240): > > Mothers chicken soup has been known by many to be a cure for so many illnesses, including the common cold. What the cure is is not in the chemical compounds but the Love flowing from the mother to the child who is acceptive to that Love and trusts his mother. Love is what cures, Love is God and God is Spirit, so Love is Spirit, something science does not want to deal with. > > When scientists get their hands on this, they analyze the chemical compounds, and remove the Love from the mother as far as possible by double blind studies, and remove the acceptance of Love and trust from the child. Then no surprise they find nothing. Or if they do find something they insist that the soup has to contain a certain compound to work, or be made a certain way. This insistence of a certain way, repeatable results, is in religion called legalism. Legalism manifests itself in Christianity in insistence of certain prayers, or rituals or the use of a certain version of the Bible. Science is no different, and they take it to a whole other level. Love does not work this way, Love is accepting and not demanding. and walk away. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examining-things-yourself-vs-taking-others-word-for-it/586424)._