(August 9, 2014 at 1:54 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I don't even think that is a necessary claim to make, and is a bit too presumptuous of the capabilities of the human brain IMHO. Instead, I would admonish: accept the inevitably of uncertainty, and acknowledge the only reliable--and therefore, reasonable--means for discovering the deeper truths of reality that demand our reverence; the scientific method, and its guiding, most triumph, philosophical principle, the fecundity of its practice.
Indeed, this is a great point. The willingness to admit ignorance is the starting point of every lesson life gives us. Science, building through the lives of generations of men, must always ask two things:
1) Is what we think we know true?
2) How can we be wrong?
The fact that it does most often ask those two questions is why I trust scientific processes. When you couple those questions with a system of peer-review that rewards new insights (rather than punishing them, as religion does), you come out with a powerful means for interrogating the Universe.
