Do u believe in Science?

Question

Can u make enough sense out of Science to beleive it All? or do u just think some or very little of it makes any sense?

Answer 1

If science didn't work, you wouldn't have your computer or this website to ask your questions.

Few people understand a lot about every area of science. There are too many fields and the work performed in each too specialized for anyone to be proficient in all.

I know relatively little about physics, but have a PhD in pharmaceutics. Many amazing geologists know little about biology.

Until you study it, you will not understand it. but once you start understanding a little, ther rest makes more sense.

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Follow-up: Why does everything have to be a God v Science throwdown? Religious people aren't idiots and scientists aren't heathens.
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Answer 2

Science is not something to be 'believed'. It is an objective process of explaining what exists. Further, it categorizes knowledge based on the certainty by which it is known. There are scientific facts (known true), theories(possibly true, but not proven) and hypotheses (educated guesses).

As for scientific facts, these are not things that a group of people sitting around a table decide are true. Facts are things that are revealed to be true based on careful experimentation and analysis of the physical world.

This is in contrast to religion where nothing is provable, and all must be taken on faith.

Very little of science may make any sense to an uneducated person. Even scientists may have difficulty grasping the work done by others in different scientfic fields. But look at the wonders around you to see how well science works. Imagine, being able to talk to anyone in the world from a little box that you can fit in your pocket. How amazing would that be to someone from the 19th century? Or all of the technical advances in medicine, computing, etc.. Even a 'simple' IPOD is the result of a huge amount of underlying scientific work.

So, yes, Virginia, science does exist..

Answer 3

I believe in the methods of science. I believe in the way it operates to clarify what is happening in the world. I don't think belief is a good word to describe how I feel about scientific knowledge. I don't "believe" in it as in accept it without reservation, and defend it in the same way. In order to be a scientist one must be prepared to abandon any theory or law, no matter how established, once it has conclusive evidence against it. Science is constantly skeptical of itself, which is why so much of what used to be law has fallen apart. And it's clinical, you can't go into an experiment looking to prove something or another is true, you have to go into it looking to gather knowledge to make predictions in the world. And I think that scientific knowledge is only as important as how well it describes/predicts the world.
It's totally different from religious beliefs, not even remotely similar. I do believe that observing, measuring, and predicting is a way to discover more about how the world works.
I wish they had a different word for it. People confuse the two all the time. Scientific belief is kind of: this is what we're working off of, but it could change.
Religious belief is much more deep rooted, and not going to change. It's a very different feeling.

Answer 4

Well, if you're questioning religion versus science, the matter really isn't about beleif, it is more about trusting the research and discoveries of other human beings. Science is very difficult, and anything that is difficult, in my opinion, is worth learning as it is a time when you as a person can expand your knowledge. However, if you would rather "beleive" that humans did not write religious text and somehow a great creator influences our daily lives, then do so, but do not expect others to follow suit. Some prefer the easy way, others prefer to accept that there are things we can learn and then there are things we are destined not to know in our lifetime, and that's okay.

Answer 5

You can't believe it all, there are new theories popping up everyday. But once a theory has been tested and proved to be true you can feel free to accept it as fact. Until then then they are opinions. Just like some of the fools that think god is the ultimate science. Don't you mean science fiction?

Answer 6

Science is simply a logical process. To say "I belive in science." really means "I trust logic and observation."

That I don't understand every explanation developed through the process doesn't make me call into question the validity of the process.

To say "Very little of this makes sense, therefore I don't believe in science." really implies the following statement: "I don't really trust logic and observation because I don't understand the conclusions drawn from them."

How many would feel comfortable making that statement?

Answer 7

I believe in science. But there is good science and bad science. Good science is done without looking for a particular outcome, is done diligently and carefully. All science does not make sense. It is what it is, and conclusions drawn from it today may not be the same as conclusions drawn from it in the future. In my experience, most science makes sense. Good luck!

Answer 8

I believe in science, even if it does not make sense to me

Answer 9

I do believe in science. It makes perfect sense to me.

Answer 10

How can u not belive in science do u mean like the not true stuff or gest the generle subject science
Because my defintion of sci is-
The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.
Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.