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Wrong. Real science is empirical in nature and based on *avoiding* unprovable assumptions.<quoted text>
Science is also based on unprovable assumptions.
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Judged: 1 1 1 Wrong. Real science is empirical in nature and based on *avoiding* unprovable assumptions. |
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Judged: 1 1 1 What you described is what science seeks to do. The assumptions of science such as the laws of nature being the same throughout the universe at all times and places is an unproved assumption. |
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I'm sure that some do, but if there is one system that I couldn't fault someone for "believing in," it would be the scientific method, or more accurately/generally, rationalism. It has proven itself to be very effective at getting results. Nothing if flawless though, so it helps to always be skeptical, even of proven methods. For example, remember the faster than light neutrino thing? Most scientists who heard about it did not immediately go "well, that settles it. They used the scientific method to get these results, so they must be right." Rather, everyone was skeptical, and said that much more testing needed to be done, and as it turned out, the original experiment was flawed. |
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Judged: 1 1 1 Hell, everything is an unproved assumption if you dig deeply enough. For practical purposes, though, inductive logic seems to work pretty well. Since my red carpet hasn't turned to lava the last 1000 times I got out of bed, it's very unlikely that it will ever happen. Likewise, the laws of nature seem to be pretty darned rigid and unchanging so, by inductive logic, it's a safe assumption that they're unchanging. If a basic law did change, like the speed of light increasing by 10%, it would pretty much rattle the scientific community to its core. |
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“God Bless America ” Since: Jul 12
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That's a perfect example that as good as the scientific method works, it can result in flawed "findings". I'd say that generally, the flaw is the human error in interpreting the data. |
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“I Am No One Else” Since: Apr 12
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Judged: 1 1 1 You are really dishonest to the core, and you take pride in that. One day you will wake up and feel bad for being such a liar and a phony, until that day, thanks for the laughs, we know your idiotic game already. |
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Judged: 1 1 1 Humans wrote the laws of nature, well technically "discovered" them & named them. That doesn't mean they're flawless. Remember reading about the "law" that said the universe is infinite? Now they're thinking its finite. Remember the "law" that said the Milky Way is the universe? Don't trust & follow science so blindly. |
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“ The Lord of delirious minds.” Since: Dec 10
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Oh explain what science is based on such. |
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And it's a perfect example of it's self correcting nature. |
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And sometimes it is human error, which is why findings aren't really taken seriously until they can be replicated by other people. |
Here are a couple more: the orderliness of the universe and our theories match what we observe. |
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Judged: 1 I don't think any religious person can claim to be a true skeptic. If they were, they wouldn't be religious. You may be interested in science, but I don't think you are a skeptic. |
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“I Am No One Else” Since: Apr 12
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Judged: 1 1 1 Argh, the cro-magnum level of study ... it hurts my head. No, we first thought it was finite, then we thought it was infinite .... the Hawking proposed that it was finite, which pretty much everyone agrees now ... however now we have this concept of a lot of, possibly infinite in number, universes all over the place just like ours, or perhaps ours is part of another. Do you read anything that is printed after 1930? |
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“ The Lord of delirious minds.” Since: Dec 10
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Theory does not match observation, it explains them. But that doesn't explain what you wrote. "Science is also based on unprovable assumptions." Science is based on empirical evidence of observable phenomenon. Only theoretical physics deals with abstract ideas , but they are ones that can be tested eventually , or are based on math models. Nothing about the scientific method can be based on unprovable assumptions, that isn't science ..that's pseudoscience. Learn to understand the difference. |
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“In the beginning God Created..” Since: Feb 12
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Judged: 1 1 1 When the Supreme Court rules it’s going to set a precedence. It will become law of the land until the Supreme Court takes it up again in a few years. Something tells me there’s going to be a lot of unhappy campers after their ruling. |
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Precedent, Eagle. When the Supreme Court rules, it will set precedent. Not precedence--precedent. You'll have to hold your breath for the result.. |
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“In the beginning God Created..” Since: Feb 12
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Judged: 1 1 1 Which way do you predict it's going to fall? |
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This is for believers in this thread that still don't understand atheism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch... |
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“I Am No One Else” Since: Apr 12
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Judged: 1 1 Liberal and conservative has nothing to do with allowing gay marriage, it's a Republican versus Democrat argument. No true conservative wants more laws, therefore, no true conservative would want any laws banning something that influences personal lives and has no impact on anyone else. Liberals should, but they don't for some reason, want more laws forcing gay marriage or something like that. Bans are more laws, more government, and more intrusion in our personal lives, that goes against every conservative ideal, and why I do not support bans. Republicans are just idiots with god delusions, most Democrats are just lesser idiots with god delusions, a few of the Democrats lack the delusion. Most atheists are probably just choosing Democrats as the lesser of two evils because we're not stupid enough to think that anyone with a god delusion is actually fit to run a country, much less tell anyone how to live. |
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08Dec12..... .....ListenUp 'dimKing'...ya Fuckwit. Ps:....Ya have NO wit. Forever and Ever BobLoblah |
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