Isn't this true?
2007-01-15 09:55:29 · 16 answers · asked by "Asian Warren Buffett" 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
They can't explain everything; they just do a much better job than any other method.
An example of one thing they can't explain: why two particular people fall in love.
Or: where will I be in five years time?
For every other kind of problem, they are pretty good.
2007-01-15 15:29:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science is a tool man uses to explain the physical universe. Math is a tool man uses to quantify things.
Neither is adequate to explain things outside of the physical universe. Science will never prove or disprove God, for example.
I think your professor has a rather myopic view of things.
2007-01-15 10:04:07 · answer #2 · answered by Dave R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-20 06:15:06 · answer #3 · answered by merkel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you mean by "everything".
Science can't even tell us what gravity is....or the mystery behind prime numbers, or dark matter, or what gives with the double-slit experiment....whether the fundamental constants are actually changing or not.....and on and on.
Along with that....
....not in regard to Jesus either, which I totally believe in.
Jesus created us and everything around us. Along with that He created all the things our meager 'science' has discovered and will discover. Impressive by human standards for sure, but science and math cannot explain everything.
2007-01-15 11:57:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a long way from explaining everything. No tool we have including religion can do that. But science like other studies is evolving so I think it would be the closest thing we have.
2007-01-15 10:00:04 · answer #5 · answered by nicewknd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hardly there yet. That is what mathematicians and scientists do; try explaining things. If the could explain every thing, they would be out of a job, Some things may be beyond human explanatory power. A quote from J. B. S. Haldane; "The universe is queerer than we know and it may be queerer than we CAN know ". Tell your teacher that.
2007-01-15 10:24:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Math & science have the capacity to explain everything, yes. But that doesn't necessarilly mean that human development will continue long enough for humans to avail themselves of that opportunity. We have politicians banning the promulgation of the idea that the Grand Canyon is millions of years old, for goodness sake, in case it offends "Creationists".
2007-01-15 10:11:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science can't explain God, women's logic at that time of the month, horoscopes and astrology, the ultimate fate of the universe, what happened before the Big Bang or why some people think that 9/11 was a government conspiracy.
2007-01-15 10:06:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No they can't. Not yet anyway.
The idea of explaining everything is not an absolute. Not everything has an explanation.
They are exploratory tools that search for logical explanation but not necessarily an answer. There are many physical properties that are still not explained nor will it ever.
I posed that to my physics teacher years ago. We agreed many answers will never be found.
2007-01-15 10:05:23 · answer #9 · answered by Get A Grip 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope.
We don't have a good idea of why the Big Bang happened. It's pretty much speculation. It'll probably stay that way.
At present, we don't have a good knowledge of what exotic Dark Energy is. Eventually we'll get a better explanation. Don't hold your breath.
2007-01-15 10:01:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋