Atheism

[RoadRunner79]

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.

I agree, and that is my point. Science is a tool. And is a part of the evaluation process if it has something to say on the matter. It’s not the only tool of epistemology and doesn’t always get the highest priority automatically. It may, but other times it may make a lesser or even no contribution. All depends on what it makes evident, the assumptions and reasons for the conclusion. I’m not critisizing science, only scientism. I might only quibble with your definition in the use of the word reality. My conversation was a part of reality, and as we agreed, science is not the appropriate tool to tell us of that reality.