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What IS Science And What IS NOT Science?

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Woodsy
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10-14-2006 9:47 AM 		Reply to: Message 70 by iano
10-14-2006 8:21 AM

Re: Is what science is a philosophy about what science is?
Surely beliefs that contradict reality are false beliefs, and should be abandoned. Any other approach is neither science nor honest.
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Woodsy
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10-14-2006 10:29 AM 		Reply to: Message 73 by iano
10-14-2006 9:52 AM

Re: Is what science is a philosophy about what science is?
Globally the divide seems to be: belief subject to science. vs science a subset of belief. The athiestic, materialistic view vs. the believers view.
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Do you therefore hold that it is proper to believe something that is patently false?
(Personally, I do not understand how one could do this. I suppose one could still claim to believe whatever it was.)
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Woodsy
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10-15-2006 7:16 PM 		Reply to: Message 95 by iano
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Re: Is what science is a philosophy about what science is?
One of the properties of science is that it should be universal; that is, equally available to everyone willing to make the necessary effort. Even during the Napoleonic wars, scientists travelled back and forth between England and France.
Since the bible has authority only to the followers of certain religions, how can it be used in a discipline that should be universal?
Whatever bible-based research may be doing, how can it be science when its data is data only to some people, not to others?
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