--- On Sat, 8/30/08, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin Supports Teaching Creationism in
> Schools
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 1:22 PM
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter
> <drpetersutphen@> wrote:
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> > <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
Nice response, John. I teach at a community college (aka, glorified high
school) so the majority of the students don't even have a basic grasp of the
difference between science and philosophy. That's pretty sad, but its the
non-metaphysical truth!
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