(August 26, 2012 at 1:09 pm)Napoléon Wrote:(August 26, 2012 at 6:55 am)Rayaan Wrote: But, in the end, we still do not know if science is the only means of understanding reality. You may think it is, but that doesn't necessarily make it true.
Oh fucking hell.
Sure, there might be other ways of interpreting the universe to discern fact from fiction, other than by using science, but up until now, every other method has failed.
If you are privy to some other form of discerning "what really is" and can demonstrate it to be true and show that it works, please, feel free to let the rest of the world know about it.
I'm going to channel Matt Dillahunty again, I'm afraid, but he's said on this very subject something along the lines of "if there is some better way of investigating the Universe than the scientific method, you'd need to use something like the scientific method to validate it". I've probably misquoted him horribly, but that was essentially his meaning.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
