Thursday, April 24, 2014

Science isn't

Science is "a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe."  

So . . Science collects empirical data, makes hypotheses, and tests predictions.

Don't mix up science with Scientism which is "the dogmatic endorsement of scientific methodology and the reduction of all knowledge to only that which is measurable.

 So . . Scientism makes dogmatic claims about things they can't measure.
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A claim of scientism might be that humans are just another animal since we have bodies made of the same proteins.  The idea that humans are not special is an in-valid conclusion based only on the material we're made from.  More on this tomorrow.

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