Posted on 06/01/2006 2:26:58 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
bump for later read
Myself, I prefer the provisional, inductive truth of the scientific method.
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Which ALSO has it's considerable and ALSO devastating blind spots.
Thanks for posting the pics of Brownie...she does look like a sweet girl...
Global warming, not asteroid, cause of extinction?
c|net news.com | 1/20/2005 | Michael Kanellos
Posted on 01/21/2005 10:09:59 AM EST by Zon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1325390/posts
"So your beef with science is that its theories change to accomodate new information? That's funny; I've always considered this a strength.
What method, devoid of induction, do you use to find your unchanging truth? Could you give me an example of a truth you've found using this method?"
No, I do not have a beef with science. I know what it is and what it isn't. I know what it can do and what it can't do. Changing to accommodate "new information" is fine. But if you have to do that then you have to give up claiming that the scientific method gives truth and you have to admit that it gives only opinion, theory and guesses, which is exactly what anyone who knows the philosophy of science will tell you.
There is no scientific methodology that gives truth. Science can only give us operational instructions for how to manipulate the physical world, to some extent. That's why I say it is operational and not cognitive.
I object to the Darwinists and Athiests who, while actually doing history and philosophy, claim to be doing science. They puff themselves up, claiming to be models of rationalism and careful thought, yet demonstrating that they don't understand or will not be honest about the irrationalism of the empiricism that grounds science. When called to accout for it, their defense is always the same, they scoff and mock but never do they engage the fundamental problems associated with human knowledge.
an oldie I found while looking for something else. :')
New Crater Found Down Under
Source: space.com
Published: 21 April 2000 Author: Stewart Taggart
Posted on 04/21/2000 09:25:45 PDT by RightWhale
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a390081092974.htm
The end is near. Eventually.
If a crater falls down in Antarctica, and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Ask a penguin?
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