(November 4, 2014 at 11:28 pm)PhiloTech Wrote: When people say "science does not claim to know everything" my usual response is either,
"No shit, that's why we have logic and the various fields of philosophy"
or
"Even so it does not permit you to make up bullshit"
A more fitting response might be "That's why we have science, so we can investigate what science doesn't yet know". Quoting Dara Ó Briain, "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
