Does Science Have All the Answers?

On forums, I often see people stating that science gives them the facts and that anything not supported by scientific evidence, is viewed with a healthy dose of scepticism.

Most scientists will state they do not have all the answers and most of what they purport will be a working theory in progress - and often subect to change as knowledge increases.

Scientists (a word coined only in 1833, before that they were physicists) will state outright that they don't have the answers to most things and what they give is mainly educated guesswork, it tends to be people that will state science as fact.

Russell Stannard is now emeritus professor of physics at the Open University. He is one of the atom-smashers, picking apart the properties of matter, energy, space and time. He believes in the power of science. He not only believes in God, he believes in the Church of England. He has contributed Thoughts for the Day to Radio 4, those morning homilies on the mysteries of existence. Does it worry him that science - his science - could be about to explain the whole story of space, time matter and energy without any need for a Creator? "No, because a starting point you can have is: why is there something rather than nothing? Why is there a world? Now I cannot see how science could ever provide an answer," he says.

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Scientific knowledge increases at an exponential rate. Curiously ignorance does not similarly decrease. The basic activity of science is in fact confronting ignorance, and often producing more of it. In this course we will examine the scientific approach to ignorance, primarily through invited lectures from working scientists. They will discuss the state of ignorance in their field and in their individual laboratories. We hope thereby to gain an understanding of the scientific process by analyzing how it approaches what it doesn’t know.

These are just 6 discoveries that science can't explain - they all have their own explanations but cannot agree on a uniform one: http://www.collective-evolution.com/...-cant-explain/

There are many things modern science cannot explain, and yet they occur anyway. This includes phenomena in the "hard sciences" as well as in the paranormal. These effects are now being proven in the laboratory, even though they defy present scientific theory.

In the past three decades scientific evidence has accumulated showing that the present scientific paradigm is broken. In the hard sciences:

1. DARK MATTER of an unknown form makes up most of the matter of the universe. This matter is not predicted by the standard physics models. The so-called "Theory of Everything" does not predict and does not understand what this substance is.

2. THE LAW OF GRAVITY appears to be seriously broken. Experiments by Saxl and Allais found that Foucault pendulums veer off in strange directions during solar eclipses. Interplanetary NASA satellites are showing persistent errors in trajectory. Neither of these is explained or predicted by the standard theory of gravity known as Einstein's General Relativity.

3. COLD FUSION. The Cold Fusion phenomenon violates physics as we understand it, and yet it has been duplicated in various forms in over 500 laboratories around the world. Recent studies by the Electric Power Research Institute, a large non-profit research organization funded by the nation's power companies, found that Cold Fusion works. A recent Navy study also verified the reality of Cold Fusion, and the original MIT study which supposedly disproved Cold Fusion has been found to have doctored its data. Present day physics has no explanation for how it works, but it does work.

4. CHARGE CLUSTERS. Under certain conditions, billions of electrons can "stick together" in close proximity, despite the law of electromagnetism that like charges repel. Charge clusters are small, one millionth of a meter in diameter, and are composed of tens or hundreds of billions of electrons. They should fly apart at enormous speed, but they do not. This indicates that our laws of electromagnetism are missing something important.

5. COSMOLOGY. Quasars, which are supposed to be the most distant astronomical objects in the sky, are often found connected to nearby galaxies by jets of gas. This suggests that they may not be as far away as previously thought, and their red shifts are due to some other, more unusual physics which is not yet fully understood.

6. SPEED OF LIGHT, once thought unbreakable, has been exceeded in several recent experiments. Our notion of what is possible in terms of propagation speed has been changing as a result. Certain phenomena, such as solar disturbances on the sun which take more than eight minutes to be visible on the earth, are registered instantaneously on the acupuncture points of instrumented subjects. Acupuncture points apparently respond to solar events by some other force which travels through space at a much higher speed than light.

This covers just a few of the more glaring anomalies in the "hard sciences." Evidence has also accumulated in the laboratory that many paranormal effects are real, and can be verified and studied scientifically. Among these are the following:

7. ESP. Large-scale experiments by the Princeton PEAR Lab as well as other laboratories have proven that ESP is a real, statistically verifiable scientific phenomenon. Thousands of experiments have been conducted with dozens of subjects, which demonstrate that this form of communication is real, and that it does not weaken measurably with distance. This makes it unlike any known physical force.

8. PSYCHOKINESIS, OR MIND OVER MATTER. The ability to exert psychic force over objects at a distance has also been demonstrated in large-scale experiments. Even over distances of thousands of miles, the behavior of certain machines, called REGs for Random Event Generators, have been altered by the intention, or the psychic force of a distant person. The odds that these effects are real, and not due to chance, is now measured in billions to one. In other words, this phenomenon is real.

9. REMOTE VIEWING. The American military conducted a secret remote viewing program for almost two decades. It was supported because it worked, and evidence of its success has now become public. The remote viewers have demonstrated that it is possible to view "targets" which are remote in space and time. In many cases details which were unavailable any other way were acquired by the viewers. Rigorous statistical experiments have confirmed that remote viewing has accuracy far above chance, and represents a real phenomenon which defies present science.

Why is it, when science itself states it can't prove many things, do people put so much faith in it to explain everything?

Re: Does Science Have All the Answers?

The short answer is 'no' they dont have all the answers.
Scientists are learning all the time, backtracking in a lot of cases too.
Shocked, in some cases that they were in fact wrong ......

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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.

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The supernatural is beyond our understanding and it gets in the way of scientific thinking although, - some scientists are very interested in the subject .....

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I'm not even convinced they have all the questions ! Many scientists are Religious too so I don't think religion gets in the way as much as people think it does. Myself I am religious but that doesn't stop me believing in science or looking to both science and God for answers.

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Sensible and true .....

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I am not surprised by that as scientists have enquiring minds and are keen to find out anything that is to be found out. Some so-called supernatural phenomena may, in fact, be natural.

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Yes - good point ......

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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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Too "deep" for me!