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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
August 23, 2016 at 8:02 am
(August 23, 2016 at 7:59 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: Just tell them to be more open minded...
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
August 23, 2016 at 8:42 am
It sounds like I was complicating things by invoking non-scientific methods of finding truth. Maybe I don't even need to mention archaeology. It seemed to make sense to me. It's right they don't know if science can't explain anything.
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
August 23, 2016 at 8:46 am
"To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained."
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.'
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
August 23, 2016 at 8:51 am
Science can't explain everything YET.
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
August 23, 2016 at 9:18 am
I read an opinion that "the things that need explaining" can be thought of having fractal properties. IOW, no matter how much we know, there will always be refinements and more additional data there to gather.
Newton, for instance, got really close, Einstein 'tweaked' Newton's theories, Newton didn't have the information on extreme circumstances to allow him to craft a theory applicable in those cases. Einstein added to Newton, did not overthrow him, and extended our understanding into those more extreme conditions we now know exist in the universe.
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
August 23, 2016 at 9:39 am
Science can't explain everything, so the best response is to agree with that statement.
When someone says science can't explain everything though it's usually someone who's come up with a. Illogical conclusion based on the fact that science can't explain everything.
So what's more important is how you respond to those illogical conclusions. And those conclusions are really variable without a single response being applicable to all.
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
August 23, 2016 at 9:48 am
I recommend saying "well of course not, and it never will". Science is only any good for understanding the natural world. Literature, poetry, other art forms - things we invent are mostly opaque to science. If you want to be more provocative you might change that list to "Literature, folk tales, mythology, religion - you know, shit we just make up - that stuff is mostly opaque to science".