(April 25, 2015 at 8:56 am)Red Economist Wrote: 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.
Yes, all theories are probably wrong.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
