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To: tpaine; OWK; AndrewC; DittoJed2; Alamo-Girl; PatrickHenry; unspun
...search for truth in science....

tpaine, science is not about "truth!" Science is about making accurate descriptions of Nature.

Here's the great physicist, Neils Bohr, on that point:

"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature."

In other words, science is about epistemology; it's not about ontology. Capice???

43 posted on 09/18/2003 10:21:29 AM PDT by betty boop (God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. -- Paul Dirac)
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To: betty boop
"Capice?"


Of course I understand you betty. You're belaboring the obvious in an effort to make a meaningful reply.
54 posted on 09/18/2003 10:55:04 AM PDT by tpaine ( I'm trying to be Mr Nice Guy, but politics keep getting in me way. ArnieRino for Governator!)
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