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> the best explanatipn we have Exactly my point. So in absence of a better explanation we will just acceptance SOMETHING to give us some comfort so we can dist
by mavili 4y ago
> the best explanatipn we have
Exactly my point. So in absence of a better explanation we will just acceptance SOMETHING to give us some comfort so we can distance ourselves from religious people. Doesn't matter that our BEST explanation may not be true
- BuyMyBitcoins 4y ago>”our BEST explanation may not be true” This one is tough, because the validity and utility of scientific theories / models is not based on a simple true/false dichotomy. The Standard Model of physics can describe phenomenon to an astounding level of accuracy, but it still has plenty of unsolved problems. I don’t think some new model of physics will come along and radically upend it, but if there is a new model that is more accurate, then that new model will supersede it. For instance, special relativity did not falsify Newtonian mechanics and we still use the latter all the time in the scientific and engineering world.
- moate 4y agoYour argument is that "Unlike religion, science doesn't believe in absolutism or omniscience" and that's a bad thing?
- cromulent 4y agoIf I thought the religious argument was better, I would accept it. I have to be satisfied with the best until something else comes along that is better :) Like plate tectonics or helicobacter pylori. But, as Faraday apparently said: “I hold my theories on the tips of my fingers, so that the merest breath of fact will blow them away”. Some people don’t. Dogma.