And the philosophers I read on these threads seem always to be whining about science, and how it has passed them by:
"Please pay attention to us! We were here first! Please, oh pretty please, pay some attention to us."And science keeps on doing what it is best at, which is figuring out how things work.
You go ahead and unscrew the inscrutable, or gaze at your naval or whatever. I'll stick to science.
‘It seems to me, that if you do not know the answer, or how to proceed to acquire the answer; all you can do is wax philosophical about it.’
as well as....
‘It seems to me that after many centuries of philosophy there has been no gain in knowledge from it, and no answers to the fundamental questions that plague mankind.’
But Science isn't the end all be all. And Philosophy is nice sometimes, because some questions are unanswerable with Science; and those are usually the biggies.
Science can tell us how to get into Space, but not why we would want to go there, or what to do when we get there. That would take some sort of cosmic manifest destiny philosophy.
“I’ll stick to science.”
Ah... exactly what are you qualifications as a scientist again?
I’m the defender science. You’re the one that says it cannot prove anything.
Hank
Congrats!
It just goes to show ya that the nail that stands up is the one that gets hammered.
;-))
Funny, because you keep using philosophy in your posts. Are you saying you speak nonsense?
And, are you stills ticking to this quote of yours given in post # 1:
"All science is tentative, and nothing is ever proved!" (—Coyoteman)
Shame on you. I normally like your posts, but that statement betrays the same kind of proud and willful ignorance so common in cretin creationists and IDiots.
Scientific method itself is the product of philosophy. There would be no modern science were it no the insights of great philosophers like Aristotle, Bacon, and Hume, to just name a few.
Congrats, you’re famous!
In the same sense, of course, that the brown stuff seems to always stick to the bowl when you pull the handle?
Since you've never encountered science, we'll have to wait and see I suppose.