Science and love, music, art, etc. (The limitations of science)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Monday, February 16, 2009, 19:14 (5556 days ago) @ dhw

I've come to the conclusion that DHW is an agnostic because he has an agnostic brain. He is incapable of believing anything unless he has absolute proof. And since absolute proof is scientifically impossible he can never come to believe anything. - For me the fundamentals of science consist of our knowledge of for example, Darwin's principle of evolution by natural selection, Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism, Newton's principles of mechanics, Einstein's theory of general relativity, Bohr and company's theory of quantum mechanics, and so on and so on. All of this scientific knowledge is well established and used daily to great effect. The way we are able to communicate here exemplifies many of these discoveries in action. - Because there are unknowns and controversies on the boundaries or frontiers of these subjects it seems that DHW is prepared to ignore all these achievements and say we don't really know anything about anything.

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GPJ