Pagan, Animists, naturistic Atheists..?

Question

Do you feel science has a pretty acurate representation of nature going on?

Do you feel like there's anything in nature beyond scientific explanation?

Does understanding nature through science help you appreciate it more?

I don't understand where anyone is getting the idea that I believe in a single god.

Answer 1

Accurate representation: Yes, at least in the immediately visible parts of nature. When you get into quantum physics and stuff like that ... I'm not sure.

Beyond explanation: No, but that doesn't mean we'll ever have a scientific explanation. That is, I believe an explanation ultimately exists, even if we never actually figure out what it is.

Appreciate nature more: Yes.

Answer 2

Nature is the science of life. It explains why we are here and where we are going. It explains how we came to be, the transformations over the millions of years and I feel that through science it can predict that there will be changes in the human body. I don't think that we are a finished product. I can put that in an easy term, there really is no use for our last little toe, I do believe that at some point it will disappear, it may join with the 4th toe, and we will still have our balance.
Nature is scientific explanation, I don't understand that question.
does nature through science help me appreciate it more, no,science is science, and nature falls under science, it's sort of a circular logic. Science and nature are one. nature is just a part of nature. Science encomposes more than just nature. This is sort of a very limiting question. I am not trying to be rude.

Answer 3

I'm not sure I fit in any of those categories. I'm more of a naturistic pantheist with agnostic tendencies... But anyway, I think that science is doing pretty well explaining things. I do think that there will always be unanswered questions, at least i hope we will always ask more questions than we can answer. Science helps me appreciate the diversity of nature and the amazing ways things work together. I don't see that as proof of a single God, however, if that's where you're leading.

Answer 4

As accurate as it gets at the moment. At all times science will represent nature as accurately as possible given the current body of information.

No. I believe there are things in nature that we DO NOT YET have any explanation for but if there weren't then science would be no fun. Nothing is beyond explanation.

Absolutely. Understanding the science of it has caused me to fall in love with the natural world.

Answer 5

Do you feel science has a pretty acurate representation of nature going on?

"science" is not some monolithic block-entity with its own consciousness and "Life" ... it's a method of approaching understanding. And for the moment, it's the best game in town.

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Do you feel like there's anything in nature beyond scientific explanation?

of course ... consider "science" of 100 years ago ... there was a ton of stuff **beyond** scientific explanation.
[electronics, nuclear physics, chemistry of genetics, astronautics, knowledge of galaxies and Hubble's Constant (yeah "big-bang" theory, ok)] There's no particular reason for supposing that 2007-version of sciientific understanding has all the answers either



Does understanding nature through science help you appreciate it more?

Scientific efffort has provided me with fantastic opportunity to enjoy the resuults of other people's brilliance ... wasn't it Isaac Newton who said that he could see far because he stood on the shoulders of giants.

This being said, I sometiems ask where confusion and muddy-thinking appear in the world .. which detract from my appreciation of nature?

Answer 6

I don't expect bringing $10 to the local store is going to get me 10 cases of Dom Peringnon and a crate of Beluga Caviar.

In other words, I appreciate science for what it is, does, and can do, not for what it can't.

Nothing is beyond scientific explanation, but that doesn't mean that science (as it currently exists today) has all the answers. Even miracles follow the laws of thermodynamics, conservation of energy, and the Earth's gravitational field (and anyone who says they don't is both ignorant and a poor student of chemistry and/or physics.)

When given glasses that can help see things close up very distinctly, even more so than with my normal vision, while portraying things far off in the distance as hazy and distorted, I do not pretend that they are 'perfect' but neither do I pretend they cannot be (or are not) beneficial.

Answer 7

Science is fairly representative. We're still tweaking the model, of course, and plenty of things we don't understand, but we've got a good amount to work with.

I do believe that there are things that science cannot explain - not only certain anomolies, but also the "why" behind some things.

I think that understanding anything through any method helps you to appreciate it more, so, yes, I think science helps.

Answer 8

"Do you feel science has a pretty acurate representation of nature going on? "

Yup

"Do you feel like there's anything in nature beyond scientific explanation? "

Nope.

"Does understanding nature through science help you appreciate it more?"

Yup.

Answer 9

Yes, through science we see that since the world condensed and is now expanding through big bang, many life cultures were evolved, even yours, which mean nothing in the big picture, only a worthless speck in time, which was somehow created when the star actually exploded.. Only the true race will embrace the star when it comes back to earth.....

Luckily, the rest of us aren't so stupid........

Answer 10

1. For as far as it goes... (I'd love them to have an OOL theory).
2. Several...
- OOL - Origins of Life - any potential evidence was too minute and fragile to survive the tumultuous early earth.
- Initiation of the Big Bang (i.e. cause of initial inflation),
- (Possibly) the workings of the human mind.
3. Absolutely - It's why I read about it - to appreciate it.