How Science May Be Wrong

Interbane · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 2:28 pm Post subject: How Science May Be Wrong

Me: "Science cannot be “wrong” in any real sense of the word."

MA: "Ooh. I disagree. But that's a discussion for another thread."

Here is the thread. I don't mean to attempt to drag you into this if you're not up to it, but I'm interested to hear your thoughts.

From Wikipedia:

Quote:
Despite popular impressions of science, it is not the goal of science to answer all questions. The goal of the physical sciences is to answer only those that pertain to physical reality. Also, science cannot possibly address all possible questions, so the choice of which questions to answer becomes important. Science does not and can not produce absolute and unquestionable truth. Rather, physical science often tests hypotheses about some aspect of the physical world, and when necessary revises or replaces it in light of new observations or data.

According to empiricism, science does not make any statements about how nature actually "is"; science can only make conclusions about our observations of nature.

This is more or less summarizing Pure Science, as opposed to Applied Science, which takes those conclusions and applies them. It is Pure Science that I was mentioning in which it is difficult to place a truth value on.

Edited by: Interbane at: 5/24/05 3:43 pm

Unknown · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 10:59 am Post subject: Unknown

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