2007-11-16 04:56:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
trickytr... the scientific method explains what science is and does.
2007-11-16 05:04:24 · update #1
Total human knowledge is far too incomplete to hazard a guess at that. Ask again in a million years or so.
2007-11-16 07:33:05 · answer #1 · answered by silverbullet 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Potentially? Yes. Science is a process of gathering information in order to answer questions. So if everything could be simplly put into a questions, then science coule be used to answer that question.
Science doesn't explain, scientists do. Remember, results are at the mercy of a scientist's interpretation of those results. However, if that scientist was a good scientist and elimiated as much bias as possible from his/her research, then the answer to the question would be pretty straight forward....however, most times the answers that result from scientific research lead to more questions!
and, your remark about the scientific process is inaccurate (i.e, "... explains what science is and does"). The scientific process is the manner in which science is supposed to work. The scientific process outlines the steps that a scientist (or anyone really) should take so that the question is answered with as little bias as possible. It also assures that the research that is conducted is conducted for a specific purpose (i.e., to answer a specific question).
What science is: A process to investigate questions.
What science does: Provides insight towards a particular question. Builds knowledge.
2007-11-16 14:17:34 · answer #2 · answered by crappiefishergirl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not think so. I think it can explain a lot of how, but not the why for everything.
"Science"... Now that I think about it, that is a very broad science. Perhaps, potentially, in both direct and indirect ways, science can explain almost everything. But science is backed by humans who actually do the discovering and explaining. And can those humans find everything and use science to explain it? I do not believe so.
2007-11-16 16:09:07 · answer #3 · answered by JustAsking 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quantum uncertainty limits what science can explain. Beyond that, science at its best can explain only the physical universe. Anything outside of that, including God, is currently beyond science.
2007-11-17 01:15:10 · answer #4 · answered by Frank N 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. The problem is not science, but the simple fact that we do no know what we do not know. However, science does have at least the potential to solve everything that we know that we do not know yet.
2007-11-16 13:05:26 · answer #5 · answered by bsxfn 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes i think it does but what potentially explains science.
2007-11-16 13:01:43 · answer #6 · answered by trickytrev 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
scientists would like to think so,if it cant well try to find ways to investigate the nexplained. i think the one thing we proberly never explain is what happens affter death. to some the after it may be obvious but never any 'proof' as such. like trying to disprove religion youll have to explore the whole universe, and yet they still say 'its outside the universe' or 'hes invisable' so...
2007-11-16 13:37:27 · answer #7 · answered by Nick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No; it can only explain what it can observe, which is why subjects such as Psychology or Sociology are not always regarded as being 'science'.
2007-11-16 13:11:48 · answer #8 · answered by neil 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Science is just a very educated guess, not an absolute law.
2007-11-16 13:01:32 · answer #9 · answered by sllog19 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
No. It cannot explain itself.
2007-11-16 14:36:58 · answer #10 · answered by greenshootuk 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋