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To: caffe
Would you agree that science must be self-consistent?It must not contradict itself?

Science is not based on axioms, so contradictions require modifications to definitions and assumpptions. Self-consistency is certainly desirable, but science lives continuously with the unexplained and with apparent contradictions.

678 posted on 12/09/2005 7:52:47 AM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: js1138

Then, based on what you said, science is often forced to cope with the supernatural: Logical self-consistency demands it.


694 posted on 12/09/2005 9:10:28 AM PST by caffe (Hey, dems, you finally have an opportunity to vote!!!)
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To: js1138
Self-consistency is certainly desirable, but science lives continuously with the unexplained and with apparent contradictions.

Deeper still, science attempts to be consistent with the observed universe. If the universe is self-contradictory, so will science be. We tend to assume that the universe is internally consistent, but I highly doubt that such a thing is provable.

706 posted on 12/09/2005 10:09:13 AM PST by Senator Bedfellow
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