RE: What are the evidence for no god?
October 19, 2015 at 10:32 am
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2015 at 10:35 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(October 19, 2015 at 5:21 am)Alex K Wrote:(October 19, 2015 at 1:29 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: I'm still trying to get my mind around a biology undergrad who doesn't understand the scientific connotation of theory.
You overestimate how much about philosophy of science one has to understand in order to get a PhD - Let alone a Master's or Bachelor' s degree or so. I myself was taught zilch about all that in the regular classed because the courses and lectures you have to take mostly concentrate on teaching you how to use existing theories. I learned what doing science means in my thesis work. I'd say I only learned how to properly do it by working with brilliant scientists.
I have no deep education in science, unlike you or Rocket Surgeon, but the difference between a theory, a hypothesis, and a guess was taught me in biology and physical anthropology both, at the junior college level ... perhaps because of the fundamentalist influence here in America?
It wasn't a full-fledged study of the philosophy of science, but simply an explication of the differences between the three terms. The fact that Blondie here doesn't know that is pretty surprising to me.