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To: Zeneta

This is not science? No - this is exactly science. There are no guarantees, there are no proofs, there are no absolutes. The whole concept of the scientific method is that there are qualifiers. All crows are black - no?


284 posted on 02/04/2013 8:28:58 PM PST by stormer
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To: stormer
This is not science? No - this is exactly science. There are no guarantees, there are no proofs, there are no absolutes.

Disproof by counterexample: mathematics.

286 posted on 02/04/2013 8:36:11 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: stormer

......This is not science? No - this is exactly science. There are no guarantees, there are no proofs, there are no absolutes. The whole concept of the scientific method is that there are qualifiers...........

The science of perpetual uncertainty.

In the mean time, accept it.


288 posted on 02/04/2013 8:43:00 PM PST by Zeneta (Why are so many people searching for something that has already found us ?)
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To: stormer
No - this is exactly science. There are no guarantees, there are no proofs, there are no absolutes. The whole concept of the scientific method is that there are qualifiers. All crows are black - no?

What guarantee can you give us that there are no guarantees?

Do you have proof that there are no proofs?

Are you absolutely sure there are no absolutes?

Can you more clearly explicate the scientific method as it relates to science? Some of the scientific historical sciences (geology, anthropology, even biology) are abductive in their pronouncements. Given your pronouncements of no guarantees, no proofs, and no absolutes, your a priori certitude and your devotion to methodological naturalism there are several concepts you must struggle (in vain) with, such as abstract invarient universal entities, consciousness, mathemathics, reason, logic, rational thought and first offer an epistemilogical explaination in a physicalists' worldview.

For example I would ask you if you believe the brain and our noetic faculties must operate normatively in order to in order for homo sapien to truthfully analyze the observations of the universe. Darwin asked this in a different way when he said, "Why would anyone believe a chimpanzee would give rise to a brain (noetic apparatus) with convictions that are true?"

A simple question which I would ask you is this: Do you know it is true that evolution accounts for life on earth?

312 posted on 02/04/2013 10:17:57 PM PST by Texas Songwriter (THAT)
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