Science is the process through which we derive reliable predictive rules through controlled experimentation...If you ask most people what science is, they will give you an answer that looks a lot like Aristotelian science — i.e., the exact opposite of what modern science actually is...People think that a study that uses statistical wizardry to show correlations between two things is scientific because it uses high school math and was done by someone in a university building, except that, correctly speaking, it is not...This is how you get... Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne thinking science has made God irrelevant, even though, by definition, religion concerns the ultimate causes of things and, again, by definition, science cannot tell you about them theweek/article/index/268360/how-our-botched-understanding-of-science-ruins-everything
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:46:43 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015