Doug Sax on wire
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:22:13 +0000, Eeyore
wrote:
Science isn't complicated. Science has the answers. Always. Every time.
Audiophool 'BELIEF' (a.k.a religion) counts for nothing in the real world..
But I'll give you an alternative viewpoint: Science *is*
complicated. Science has the questions. Sometimes, if we're
lucky.
Science ALWAYS has the answers. It would be a disaster if it didn't.
Science NEVER has the answers. It would be Dogma if it did.
Science must fundamentally be about disprovability - all "answers"
are provisional and subject to being disproven. The classic
examples of our time were Euclidean and Newtonian models,
perfectly reasonable and even encoded into our DNA (to some
very compelling extent) but really only approximations. Yet
our world was deeply changed by the difference between the
approximations and the real world.
Much thanks, as always,
Chris Hornbeck
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