RE: Debunking of Modern Evolutionary and Cosmological Theories
April 25, 2015 at 8:56 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2015 at 8:59 am by Red Economist.)
(April 25, 2015 at 4:39 am)Alex K Wrote: @red Economist
What do you mean by "science is right"?
(April 25, 2015 at 6:35 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(April 25, 2015 at 3:56 am)Red Economist Wrote: That's not a problem. I think you may find a lot of atheists take it for granted that science is right and so may not be open to understanding the philosophical background. Once you start walking away from Science and into philosophy, the debate becomes much more open as it is possible to discuss how something can be considered true, what evidence matters and what constitutes 'proof' for an idea.
p.s. I'm not a scientist. my knowledge of natural science is fairly limited beyond a high school/secondary school level, but the philosophy of science has been of interest as an atheist.
Science is as right as we can make it with available evidence and is the only means we have to dispassionately discover reality.
Philosophy can be interesting but to get to the truth scientific methods must be used.
By the way I distrust the term "natural science" there is only science.
By "science is right" I mean the idea that Science gives us "perfect" knowledge of the objective world (which it doesn't). Its a misunderstanding that is more true of popular science as Science is something of a best guess approximation of how the world works and our ideas have to constantly be improved upon, so scientific knowledge is not absolute. Sometimes people think that scientific answers are true for all time, but that is relative to our technological capacity to reproduce natural phenomena and thereby demonstrate that our ideas correspond to the world as well as the system of ideas we have at our disposal to describe that world.
