(February 17, 2015 at 11:40 am)Parkers Tan Wrote:(February 17, 2015 at 10:50 am)watchamadoodle Wrote: It seems to me that "purpose" and "beauty" are within the magisterium of science too. For example, science can measure psychological wellbeing, productivity, emotional reaction, etc.
Take the example of cooking recipes. Science can measure the quality of recipes in various ways. One recipe might be nutritious. Another recipe might have mass appeal...
I don't think science is equipped to address æsthetics, or subjective matters like taste. I also don't think science provides "purpose" to anything.
Well, scientists have recently determined that penguins have lost 3 of the 5 basic tastes over time. They cannot taste the fish they eat or fruit given to them to eat. So they certainly can address that issue objectively.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...131109.htm
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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