What can science not prove?
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Things that cannot be scientifically proven: 1. Mathematics and logic - Science can't prove them because science presupposes them. 2. Metaphysical truths - Such as, there are minds that exist other than my own. 3. Ethical judgements - You can't prove by science that the Nazis were evil because morality is not subject to the scientific method. 4. Aesthetic judgements - The beautiful, like the good, cannot be scientifically proven. 5. Science itself The belief that the scientific method discovers truth can't be proven by the scientific method itself. Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, I don't have enough Faith to be an Atheist
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Things that cannot be scientifically proven: 1. Mathematics and logic - Science can't prove them because science presupposes them. 2. Metaphysical truths - Such as, there are minds that exist other than my own. 3. Ethical judgements - You can't prove by science that...
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Things that cannot be scientifically proven: 1. Mathematics and logic - Science can't prove them because science presupposes them. 2. Metaphysical truths - Such as, there are minds that exist other than my own. 3. Ethical judgements - You can't prove by science that the Nazis were evil because morality is not subject to the scientific method. 4. Aesthetic judgements - The beautiful, like the good, cannot be scientifically proven. 5. Science itself The belief that the scientific method discovers truth can't be proven by the scientific method itself. Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, I don't have enough Faith to be an Atheist
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Science is good at answering the 'what' and 'how' questions. For example, 'how did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'who' and 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with. Cooking is not chemistry and chemistry alone. When cooking starts, what ingredients are involved at the most indivisible level and how they mix together is part of reality. The second set of reality is who is cooking, why and for whom? The cook and hunger as part of reality are as much important as the knowledge of how the ingredients mix to become eventually a prepared ready-to-eat food. An answer is not sufficient if it only describes the material and processes through which it was created.
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Science is good at answering the 'what' and 'how' questions. For example, 'how did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'who' and 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning...
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Science is good at answering the 'what' and 'how' questions. For example, 'how did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'who' and 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with. Cooking is not chemistry and chemistry alone. When cooking starts, what ingredients are involved at the most indivisible level and how they mix together is part of reality. The second set of reality is who is cooking, why and for whom? The cook and hunger as part of reality are as much important as the knowledge of how the ingredients mix to become eventually a prepared ready-to-eat food. An answer is not sufficient if it only describes the material and processes through which it was created.
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