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GoSeeCal_Spot t1_it2tjk5 wrote

Reply to comment by sismetic in [Peter Harrison] Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it by BasketCase0024

if it isn't accessible by science it isn't reality, it's delusion.
and Yes science seeks truth, but science can never be absolute because previously unknow variable may modify the result.

Science does say: "This is true to the best of our knowledge."

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iiioiia t1_it3phvv wrote

> if it isn't accessible by science it isn't reality, it's delusion.

Have you a scientific proof of this fact?

> Science does say: "This is true to the best of our knowledge."

So do religious people.

Is this all that science (and its disciples) say?

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sismetic t1_it4qwhf wrote

> if it isn't accessible by science it isn't reality, it's delusion.

That's a terrible philosophical outlook. It is to be ridiculed as much as flat Earthers. Who argues that nonsense?

> Science does say: "This is true to the best of our knowledge."

No, it doesn't. It says here's the model that best fits the observations we have. Nothing to do with truth, and not even relevant, to what I said, profound truths. It makes no metaphysical claims, no ontological claims, requires a philosophical model for its limited epistemic claims, and it says nothing about the human experience as such. It doesn't answer as to the essence of humans, as to the very experience of reality, as to the nature of reality, as to the source of reality, as to morality, as to meaning, and so on. Science is useful only in its limited practical scope, nothing more.

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