(August 10, 2018 at 6:08 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(August 10, 2018 at 4:24 am)Cyberman Wrote: Anything that has an effect on the Universe, however tiny, falls directly under the purview of science almost by definition.
To clarify, what I mean is that science is not always the best tool to tell you everything. While it does create a sound wave (physical effect) you are not going to use a scientific study to tell you about a conversation I had the other day. And for many events, science may be able to offer corroborating evidence, bit cannot tell you as much as direct evidence. What started this discussion (the Cosby case) science did not have a major if any role in coming to a conclusion.
Of course you wouldn't use science to tell you about a conversation you had, but by the same token you wouldn't use that as a criticism of a 'limitation' of science - any more than dismissing an egg timer as useless because it can't read your mind or whatever. Science is a tool which, properly applied, can not only discern the nature of reality but is the single best method we have of doing so.
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.'
