I haven't seen the resolution... but who could say anything against science?
Who could say anything against science?
Well, what can I say? I love science! (Have a lot of catching up to do, though.)
But I can see how one might worry about statements such as the following:
“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach… you’re not going to be able to understand it. You see, my physics students don’t understand it either. That is because I don’t understand it. Nobody does.” [Richard Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter]
Me, I don’t understand this mindset, this satisfaction with pure abstraction. I agree with Grandpierre: “I cannot accept such a view of science. I think that everyone working on a field of science should develop an ability to understand the basic ideas. Science should be about understanding and nor about obscure mathematical manipulations.”
It seems to me that science can only have a “truth problem” if it settles for fuzzy abstractions that really don’t mean anything. At bottom, it seems to me that science must be about revealing the truth of existence and the universe, or it’s really a pointless exercise. It must reveal what actually is, not what some of its practitioners might like the “is” to be….
For anyone interested: click here for the latest draft of the agreement.