05-11-2013, 06:58 PM
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Re: Does Science Have All the Answers?
Originally Posted by Alan Cooke
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It's pretty obvious that science doesn't have all the answers and probably never will but it's the best tool to make progress. What is not helpful is to invent some supernatural theory to explain something which is at present beyond our understanding. I don't think inventing a god has in anyway helped in developing computing for example.
05-11-2013, 07:43 PM
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Re: Does Science Have All the Answers?
Hi Karen, you only have to look around you to see what remarkable leaps in our knowledge and advances in technology and medicine have been achieved over the last century to have faith in the potential of science. How we use that knowledge is down to the politicians and industrial tycoons. Science can be used for good or for evil...........let's hope that the good prevails.
05-11-2013, 07:49 PM
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Re: Does Science Have All the Answers?
Originally Posted by Meg
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I believe there is a logical and rational explanation to everything. Of course science doesn't have all the answers and scientists don't even know if they are asking the right questions in some instances. No one will ever have all the answers because the world around us is constantly changing presenting new questions and challenges for science to resolve
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It frightens me, that we are destroying this beautiful planet.
05-11-2013, 07:51 PM
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Re: Does Science Have All the Answers?
Originally Posted by Alan Cooke
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Hi Karen, you only have to look around you to see what remarkable leaps in our knowledge and advances in technology and medicine have been achieved over the last century to have faith in the potential of science. How we use that knowledge is down to the politicians and industrial tycoons.
06-11-2013, 01:20 AM
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Re: Does Science Have All the Answers?
Originally Posted by ben-varrey
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BIB: that is the point of discussion: why do people put so much faith in something that they know is very limited?
Far better an open ended science which acknowledges its shortcomings and constantly strives to improve its understanding of the universe, than a closed metaphysical system which assumes it already has all the knowledge necessary to efficiently organise life on this planet - eg religions like christianity and islam or deified political theories like marxism, fascism or neo-liberalism.
06-11-2013, 10:19 AM
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Re: Does Science Have All the Answers?
Originally Posted by MickB
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Because it is limited only by the scope of our present knowledge and the limitations of the experimental and theoretical research we can carry out. As science develops, so does our knowledge based upon our observations and the theoretical probabilities we can derive from those observations.Far better an open ended science which acknowledges its shortcomings and constantly strives to improve its understanding of the universe, than a closed metaphysical system which assumes it already has all the knowledge necessary to efficiently organise life on this planet - eg religions like christianity and islam or deified political theories like marxism, fascism or neo-liberalism.
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