> I've always been under the impression that science is descriptive, it answers how? This may be philosophical, but has science ever actually, and by that I me

> I've always been under the impression that science is descriptive, it answers how? This may be philosophical, but has science ever actually, and by that I mean explicitly, answered how? Is how even possible to answer? I think probably not, given our current understandings, or probably not just period. Science is about building models of the reality we experience. The models are not reality themselves, so they don’t answer how. They only answer how relative to our own knowledge and experience. Also, it isn’t clear if our experience of reality is objective. I have a feeling that there is such a thing as relative objectivity among the different participants of the universe. > Whereas religion is deeper than that and aims to answer why? Religion is more of an organizational collective of power and control, but religion proper, let’s call it, and spiritually are more about consolation, in my view. This is related to why, but I think it also helps to frame religion and spirituality as “what now”? We’re here, there’s this life, this Earth, this Universe, so what are we supposed to do? I think why creeps in there as well. I’m reminded of A Serious Man and the repetitious “what’s going on?”.