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Author:		Taq
Message:		214

Forum:		Is It Science?
Topic:		What is Supernatural?
Subtitle:		Re: A pointless exercise

[qs]Scientists first muse and make a hypothesis over unsolved questions, then they test the hypothesis. Is this news to you?[/qs]

What separates the scientist from the philosopher is the second part, the testing of a hypothesis.  Is this news to you?

[qs]Your statement that scientists aren't philosophical(thinking about the big questions) is completely false.[/qs]

I never said that scientists were not philosophical.  What I said is that testing hypotheses is what makes them scientists in addition to be philosophical.

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