RE: What distinguishes a fantasy book from the bible?
July 30, 2011 at 7:52 am
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2011 at 7:56 am by Emanuel.)
(July 30, 2011 at 12:19 am)FaithNoMore Wrote:Well, from what I've understood, Statlor Wardof was saying that science's purpose isn't to discover Truth (with capital "t"). That is the purpose of philosophy. By "Truth" I suppose he meant things like whether there is some objective purpose for human life, in what it consists, what is the origin of the universe (by this I mean the issue of a creator, and whether it's personal and so on), etc.. The pursuit of these "Truths" belongs to philosophy. Science only tries to observe the natural world, understand how it works and also possibly make predictions based on the observations. For example, science discovered the Big Bang. Now science's job is done, and philosophy takes over trying to understand what it means, what implications does this have on a certain worldview, and so on. Science cannot do these things. If a scientist tries to talk about these things, he's stios being a scientist, becoming a little phiolosopher.(July 29, 2011 at 7:54 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Well you should do some reading on the philosophy of science then, because that is exactly what is taught in upper division science courses at university. We are not working in the field to discover truth.
Why don't you tell us what science is for then.
This is what I think he meant. May he correct me if I'm wrong.
