Non-overlapping magesteria

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And what would those numbers say about the nature of beauty?

Suppose I hypothesized that round faces are more beautiful than other shapes. Suppose, then, I devised and executed an experiment testing that hypothesis. Suppose I showed photographs of faces to thousands of people around the world, and found no significant correlation between basic face shape and perceived beauty.

That would be a scientific fact about beauty.

Or suppose you gave it as your opinion that there are no scientific facts about beauty. That would be self refuting. Unless, that is, your claim was merely religious, having nothing to do with science.

But you could hardly make a claim about science that didn't bear on science.