(August 8, 2014 at 5:51 pm)Michael Wrote: Pickup. The point was simply that not everything in our lives is within the purview of science. No-one can live consistently with the view that only those things verifiable by science can be held to be true. Rather, science has a particular scope. Personally, I use it to investigate health and disease (and how we can best alleviate the suffering caused by disease). I don't use it to judge good from bad, for example. I love science, but I think those who try to subject everything to it misunderstand it.
Science doesn't determine what things you value, but it should largely determine what you're willing to believe is true or not, the demand for evidence varying with the nature of the claim. I disagree that science does not inform your sense of morality as you would agree that disease is not caused by upsetting God, and hence you would not think it right to punish a person for becoming ill. A morality that is not informed by the actual state of natural entities is often an example of bad moral judgement.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza