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Author Topic:   The definition of science: What should it be?
Rob 
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Message 91 of 100 (327453)
06-29-2006 10:21 AM
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06-29-2006 4:02 AM


Re: AHH NOT AGAIN
See 90

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Rob 
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Message 92 of 100 (327454)
06-29-2006 10:23 AM
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06-29-2006 9:51 AM


Re: AHH NOT AGAIN
My comment was directed twoard purple dawn/ admindPD... Not you...
see 90

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Message 93 of 100 (327461)
06-29-2006 10:46 AM
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06-29-2006 10:23 AM


Re: AHH NOT AGAIN
My comment was directed twoard purple dawn/ admindPD... Not you...
Funny you should say that since my answer was to RGB and not YOU.

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Message 94 of 100 (327476)
06-29-2006 11:27 AM
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    rgb
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    Message 95 of 100 (327491)
    06-29-2006 12:56 PM
    Reply to: Message 90 by Rob
    06-29-2006 10:20 AM


    Re: Empiricism versus Revelation
    Rob writes
    quote:
    All of you are completely misunderstanding what I say...
    Rob, most of us aren't English proficient enough to correctly comprehend fortune cookie language or to read people's minds.

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    Percy
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    Message 96 of 100 (327502)
    06-29-2006 1:43 PM
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    06-29-2006 10:20 AM


    Re: Empiricism versus Revelation
    So in other words, when you said:
    Rob writes:
    True science is not (in my opinion) material impericism, but metaphysical revelation.
    What you really meant was that the important questions aren't the mere mechanical ones regarding how the universe works, but ones dealing with issues like meaning and ultimate origins.
    Agreed.
    Metaphysics is a search for why the machine is here...
    Metaphysics is much broader than this. Theology is just one branch of metaphysics. It might be more accurate to say that religion is the search for meaning.
    Science is wonderful, but for too many people (perhaps, not you), it serves a purpose it cannot; to answer or deny the bigger existential questions...
    I'm sure you can find people who do this, but so what? This thread is about the proper definition of science, not about misapplication of scientific principles.
    --Percy

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    Rob 
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    Message 97 of 100 (327583)
    06-29-2006 8:08 PM
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    06-29-2006 10:46 AM


    Re: AHH NOT AGAIN
    Funny you should say that since my answer was to RGB and not YOU.
    Yes, that is funny...

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    Rob 
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    Message 98 of 100 (327599)
    06-29-2006 8:43 PM
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    06-29-2006 12:56 PM


    Re: Empiricism versus Revelation
    Rob, most of us aren't English proficient enough to correctly comprehend fortune cookie language or to read people's minds.
    Sorry rgb. I have a tendancy to speak things that are spiritually discerned. As C.S. Lewis has mentioned somewhere, 'it is great fun', to be able to say things so exclusively understood. Such wonderful things, and in such a tempo as are the writing of the Apostle Paul.
    Even so, and assuming such insight is real and true, it does not help to play games with, or abuse such ability while conversing with non-believers.
    As you said, it is not you're fault that you cannot read my mind, and that is why I apologized for any confusion.
    It sounds like you understand my meaning now, and that is good. I think it is an important point as regards the differences between varying assumptions of the limitations and definitions of science.
    Any attempt to see clearly, the meaning or factual relevance of anything that exists, will not be fullfilled unless one can assume first, the bias for the existence of all things. The facts themselves can be interpreted through any number of assumed biases...
    What I find particularly useful is simply recognizing that since all things exist, then all things have a bias for existing. The only question answered that can ever truely show the proper way to view the facts, or any set of them is the question, 'what is the truth?'
    To answer that question in general, one needs to abandon any incoherent truth assumptions within the varying disciplines. If one's coherent naturalist assumptions about the universe, do not in turn cohere with one's coherent philosophical assumptions, then the whole system is broken. Either the philosophcal assumptions are incorrect, or the naturalist assumptions are incorrect, or both are incorrect.
    I believe this is why [the discipline of] morality was the method our Lord used to open the eye's of the blind (blind in the spiritual sense). We all are forced to accept a moral doctrine of some kind. As Ravi Zacharius so simply states, 'without a moral law, life is simply unlivable.' In a naturalistic framework, morality is utterly invented by man and is therefore not coherent.
    Morality is either exists, or it doesn't. If it does not, then the problem with man may well be his attempt to be something other than natural...
    Many will say that the definition of science has nothing to do with these arguments. Personallyt, I think everything has something to do with everything.
    You may wish to read the Great Debate between Sidelined and myself, for more to come on this particular angle (something) of the defintion of science (another something) as it pertains to everything.
    Rob

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    Rob 
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    Message 99 of 100 (327601)
    06-29-2006 8:46 PM
    Reply to: Message 96 by Percy
    06-29-2006 1:43 PM


    Re: Empiricism versus Revelation
    This thread is about the proper definition of science, not about misapplication of scientific principles.
    As I have showed in message 98, the definition of science if misapplied can cloud the vision of more important matters...
    However we define it, we must not restrict the single line from the rest of the disciplines...

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    Percy
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    Message 100 of 100 (327612)
    06-29-2006 9:27 PM
    Reply to: Message 99 by Rob
    06-29-2006 8:46 PM


    Re: Empiricism versus Revelation
    Rob writes:
    As I have showed in message 98, the definition of science if misapplied can cloud the vision of more important matters...
    And I repeat, this thread is about the definition of science. I won't help you draw the thread off-topic. If you'd like to discuss the misapplication of science and scientific principles to non-scientific realms then you might consider proposing a new thread.
    --Percy

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