Does science make the truth fit the answer s or the answer fit the truth? Or neither?
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Gerry G say: One can almost prove anything one wants using science or many other sources.
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MARK say: Science is a method for seeking the truth. It may not be the best method but humans have not developed a better one. Until a better is discovered, if it ever is, then the scientific method is the gold standard for seeking out the truth.
It can only define truth by the current technologies we have and our current understanding. Things can and do change because we invent technologies that were better than previous ones and our understanding grows. This is where I think most people have problems with science. They expect it to find absolute and unchallengeable truths and cannot understand why our knowledge alters.
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Jeffrey K say: Science does not find ultimate truth. It only developes theories that best summarize experimental data.
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Ronald 7 say: Science searches for the truth
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ANDRE L say: “What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?” Steven Novella
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steve say: Science discovers the truth so it finds the answer and that fits the truth. How is that difficult to understand?
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the internet say: Science is our way of gathering knowledge about reality.
If you come up with a better way, feel free to let us know.
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SonofJudah say: science is used to try to disprove God. "Science" will tell you life came from nothing, everything evolved until the evolution process slowed down (as it has intelligence to do so) now we mate to have children instead.
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Den B7 say: science answers questions.
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Quentin say: It is supposed to make the answer fit the truth but often a scientist will fiddle the results to make the truth fit the answer.
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dave say: Scientific theroy is just a best guess kind of thing.
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jennifer say: science is magical
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The_Doc_Man say: What is truth and what is the answer? Your choice of words makes this almost a nonsense question. That is, your question misses the entire point.
Science seeks a theory to fit an observation. Science doesn't "make" anything except explanations based on experiments and observations. I have a hard time mapping that statement to your question.
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Tom S say: It tries to provide rational explanations to fit the observed facts, observations and experimental results.
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David at Your Service say: Yes, sometimes mainstream science tries to make the truth fit into whatever answer they've come up with.
For example, take the coelacanth fish. Their "answer" (to the question of origins) was that it was the obvious product of evolutionism. To make the fish fit into that paradigm, they claimed its fins were limbs that were precursor of legs, and that it went extinct 65 million years ago. The truth was that it was just a weird looking fish that had not gone extinct.
The latest example is that after finding soft tissue in dino bones, in a vain attempt to explain that one, they invented the story that iron in blood can preserve animal tissue for 100 million years (so it fits the evolutionism "answer"). Huh? How do you prove that one? No, the truth is that when that tissue is C14 dated, it shows dates comparable to soft tissue found in other ancient animals such as mammoths and giant sloths.
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busterwasmycat say: "truth" lies only in what can be objectively observed. Science interprets the "truth". This really enters into a philosophical discussion about the nature of truth, what is truth? Science proposes explanations for what we can observe. Some explanations are undoubtedly as close to truth as humans can ever come, and some aren't.
Science tries to give explanation that can be used to predict the behavior of things under similar conditions. It is more a practical exercise than anything despite be founded deeply in theoretical thinking. It is done to allow us humans to know in advance what to expect from reality, and thus avoid bad outcomes, obtain good outcomes, or at minimum, reduce the hazards to the greatest extent that we can.
It isn't so much a question of truth, as a question of "does it explain what we know happens". What happens is the truth.
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jpopelish say: Science works to make the explanation fit the facts.
Measurable reality
trumps every explanation
any scientist might come up with.
This is why scientific explanations
keep getting better and more useful,
as new facts are discovered.
Scientists want to know
their mistakes.
Religious authorities,
not so much.
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Regards,
John Popelish
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Kevin say: Science is a method of trying to find out what the truth is. (Yes, predictions can be made, but if the evidence is to to the contrary of the prediction, they don't just throw it away). They try to falsify repeatedly through experimentation, and repetition of experiments, and when not one single example of evidence falsifies the hypothesis, eventually after extreme numbers of repeated experiments, it becomes a "theory" like, the "theory of general relativity."
If evidence to the contrary would suddenly emerge, first scientsts would try to replicate the results (just to confirm that the contrary happened), but then they have to re-evaluate the hypothesis.
Darwin's proposal of evolution was accepted until it was proven his explanation for how traits are passed on was proven wrong, (he didn't know about genes, which is how the traits were passed on). That didn't disprove the entirety of his hypothesis, but it meant we had to cut out parts that we knew were wrong.
Religion on the other hand, is presupposing there is a creator, and then only finding evidence to suggest the creator.
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the re - chosen one say: Science makes the answer fit the truth. A prime example of this is that modern science can now prove that The Bible has been a science Book all along that mankind mistranslated into the unscientific religious Book we still think it is today due to our lack of scientific knowledge to properly interpret the advanced scientific knowledge contained in its scriptures. So science now makes the answer fit the truth.
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Fireball say: HALF THE SCIENTISTS BELIEVE IN GOD...IF THAT helps you out but TIRH....STICK TO SUBJ
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jonniebaby say: Blinded me with science science. Science. And failed me in biology.
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Lord Bacon say: Neither. Science gives us objective measurements and calculations from which we draw conclusions.
Science serves us all, regardless of our beliefs. It does not take sides. It is the ONLY way we establish objective reality. If we can't measure it or calculate it using proven, repeatable, reliable scientific methods, we have no way of knowing it is real or whether we all have the same thing in mind.
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hard say: Science doesn’t scientists do sometimes
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Para say: If the truth knows not that science fits, how can science know the clothes it wears?
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bamaisincontrol say: Science is based on the concept of falsification. A falsifiable theory is one that makes predictions that can fail. The more possible falsifications a theory has, and the less ways it has been falsified in, the more trustworthy the theory is considered to be.
Newtons theory of gravity could be falsified in lots of different ways, but as it were, it's only been falsified in the case where we have very high momentum. We can't use the theory in those cases, though it's still used all the time in the contexts where it has yet to be falsified.
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Michael say: Science exposes the absurdity of religion.
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skeptik say: Neither - at least, not as you've written it.
The goal of science is to provide true answers.
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No Chance Without Jesus say: Science is constantly redefining its terms to make them fit the facts
Even the definition of what is a fact is no longer certain
If you get enough bozos to agree with you does something suddenly become fact (peer reviewed)?
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