(March 18, 2018 at 9:44 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Scientific observations are correct and can be certain knowledge.
The method of hypothesis, observation, then conclusion, can never yield certainty as it's circular in reasoning, and all it can do it create a working model that we can work with in the real world.
However like I said there is potentially more hypothesis that work with the data and that data confirms in the same way, it's just due to various factors that have nothing to do with science or reason, we don't entertain them.
It's even more problematic when we make it so the explanation or hypothesis has to be the most simplified version that goes with the data, only that later, we learn complexities that cannot be solved with the simplicity, and hence either stay put for a while on it or eventually learn to move from it.
And it's highly problematic, when we just briefly survey data, and don't really investigate the details of the theory and see if it stands to scrutiny.
As well, usually there is the over all data that works with the model, and it's edge cases that really screw it up.
And of course if you don't look at the edge cases or the details, it will seem true.
As soon as anyone of ANY religion brings up science they fail.
I am not singling you out, I would say the same to Jews and Christians and Buddhists and Hindus.
Scientific method is a tool, a process. It is not a religion. It isn't there to prop up the Bible, Koran, Jewish OT or Buddha or Hindu Vedas.
Scientific method is why computers exist in every nation. Scientific method is why a several ton 747 passenger jet carries passengers all over the world. Scientific method is why we update flu vaccines every year.
