(April 11, 2014 at 3:20 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Sigh. Perhaps if you had studied 5-6 years at university you'd understand what science is! As it is you clearly don't. What you're describing is trial and error. A mouse in a maze does that. The thing is enrico, things (like science) have determinate meanings and definitions. You don't get to make your own. That's why people do those degrees you mentioned. Also why we have dictionaries textbooks and shiz. The scientific method is a relatively recent development, certainly within the last 500 years. What you think of as science, observing patterns and drawing conclusions, is a different thing, and is observable in animals and children. It's gotten us a long way, evolution wise, but whatever you might think of it, it's not science. That's a big part of the reason that we've advanced so far in the last 200 years.
Science come from the Latin scientia and means knowledge so it is a way of pursuing knowledge.
It does not means small or big knowledge or old or modern knowledge.
The original meaning does not discriminate.
Now, if you want to change the rules of the game and give a different meaning at this word please do so but don't come to tell me that you are correct when in fact you are dead wrong.