--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <drpetersutphen@> wrote: > > > <snip> > > Every semester in my classes I always use Darwin's theory of > > natural selection/evolution as an example to illustrate what > > a theory is and how theories work. I try to show how science > > is grounded in empiricism and not metaphysics. > > But do you make the point that the theor(ies) of reality on > which science is based is (are) fundamentally metaphysical? > Judy,
That's a heavy question and maybe loaded as well. The pat answer should be that science is based on observable facts, meaning that reasoning and logic are involved in analyzing the results of experiments. There should be no metaphysics involved in science. Metaphysics belongs in the realm of philosophy which concerns with ideas and meanings that have not been validated by science. However, given the progress of science these days, particularly in subatomic physics, the limits of measurable phenomena have been reached. There comes a point where scientists have concluded that matter cannot be measured anymore. Thus, they've reached reached the end of observable matter and the beginning of consciousness. Presently, some physicists are asking: what happened before the Big Bang? I don't believe they can answer this question in scientific terms. JR
