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> Maybe one day science and philosophy will meld to the point where this might be possible in a peer reviewed in the Nature journal kind-of possible way ... No
by lutusp 13y ago
> Maybe one day science and philosophy will meld to the point where this might be possible in a peer reviewed in the Nature journal kind-of possible way ...
No, that's not possible, because of two essential properties of science that distinguish it from philosophy -- empirical evidence, and falsifability. The first (empirical evidence) means science is steered by evidence drawn from everyday reality in practical experiments or observations. The second (falsifiability) means it must be possible to test scientific ideas against reality, and those ideas that fail the test must be discarded.
These properties of science mean that science and philosophy will never merge.
> God cannot be addressed by the current scientific method.
And the "current scientific method" is how science is defined. The only way to get around that definition is to abandon science.