(May 8, 2013 at 3:21 am)fr0d0 Wrote: ...science should test everything. You don't think it should be honest about it's conclusions?The conclusions of science follow from its first principles. If progress is to be made, first you must be honest about the presuppositions from which you reason.
The regularity of nature is taken as given, though it need not be. Likewise, you must also presuppose that different individual things and events can be isolated within the continuous stream of seamless reality. You also presuppose that once differentiated, individual things grouped by common characteristics will behave in the same way. Science cannot work without these and other similar presuppositions. At the same time, science cannot prove the validity of its first principles.
Too many people seem to think that science is our only source of knowledge about the world. If that were the case it would be acceptable to take these presuppositions as properly basic. Fortunately the world is much richer than scientific knowledge. No scientific and mathematical analysis of Bach's music could capture its magic. The awe and beauty of Bach's music is nothing if not supernatural. So if you want to see the magic, that's it.
