Is "Scientific Fact" a contradiction in terms, when what science gives us are partially-tested hypotheses which are constantly being revised and altered?
I put this in "Religion and Spirituality" because I want to examine the question in the widest sense, of science as one expression of the search of human beings for truth.
This is not intended to be a "Science v Chrisitianity"-type question, so anyone wishing merely to express their unquestioning faith in any religion, or their equally unquestioning faith in science, is perhaps in the wrong place.
I am asking whether science can be an instrument for approaching or arriving at truth (i.e. truth as opposed to best-guess, knowledge as opposed to hypothesis) or whether it is merely a method for collecting observations and ordering them into a system.
As you are perhaps aware, this is a question on which there is current debate in the scientific community, and on which many scientists hold opposing opinions.
2006-12-30
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