Why should deists even bother with the scientific method? The use of the scientific method is founded upon Assumptions. Assumptions are things that have never been proven to be true.
For reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science
"Working scientists usually take for granted a set of basic assumptions that are needed to justify the scientific method: (1) that there is an objective reality shared by all rational observers; (2) that this objective reality is governed by natural laws; (3) that these laws can be discovered by means of systematic observation and experimentation.[8] Philosophy of science seeks a deep understanding of what these underlying assumptions mean and whether they are valid."
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But don't creationists begin with assumptions that have never been proven to be true? Assumptions such as all humans descended from two people, world-wide flood, sun stopping in the sky, etc.
I mean...yeah, you kinda have to start with the basic assumption "reality exists."
Unless you're a nihlist or assume that everything is a simulation. Which...fine, but I don't see why you'd be a deist then.
"prove to us that there is no objective reality"
It is not objectively true that there is no objective reality, since that would be a contradiction, but I do know from subjective experience that everyone who talks about objectivity is trying to sell me something.
I don't believe I've ever seen the Method itself dissed, usually they strawman all around it and claim scientists believe in things they don't.
This is like saying "Logic is stupid"
Because it's scientific?
You don't know what the Scientific Method is, do you, dearie?
Those points are not really assumptions, they are facts about our world. Without those "assumptions", there would be no computer, no internet, no air conditioning, no indoor plumbing, no cars...
Assumptions are things that have never been proven to be true.
You mean like there being a god and the earth being 6,000 years old?
Yeah, well two black holes colliding & sending ripples in space time - thus proving Einstein right a century ago - only serves to prove that what you refer to as 'Asumptions' but everyone else defines as Theories have a rather nasty habit of becoming Facts .
Question: Do rainbows physically exist...?!
What is the sound of one duck quacking?
Or, for a Sequitur answer, to misquote Pierre-Simon Laplace: The model works with that assumption.
@ Phil O'Macedon: That's a deduction, not an assumption.
Working scientists usually take for granted a set of basic assumptions that are needed to justify the scientific method: (1) that there is an objective reality shared by all rational observers; (2) that this objective reality is governed by natural laws; (3) that these laws can be discovered by means of systematic observation and experimentation.
Or, to put it another way, scientists assume the universe exists and we can learn something about it by observing it. These are such basic assumptions that, if you reject them, you can't prove anything at all - even to the extent of being unable to prove that you exist, even to yourself.
@ breakerslion - Spoil my fun why doncha. (actually friend, I fairly often make facetious comments and just as regularly get analysis of my faulty position by totally well meaning posters. It's all good and fun, and instructive!)
Actually, if you came up with some way to test that first assumption at least, there's a lot of folks paying string theorists who would love to give you a nice fat paycheck and a lab to work in.
You might want to get a degree in science first, though, so you can keep up with the string theorists, because you're gonna bump into them eventually and that sh*t's weird.
"Why should deists even bother with the scientific method?"
Oh, I dunno...:
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...just ask the Conservative Christian Dr. Buzz Aldrin. What, you assumed that they just launched that Saturn V and hoped they'd get to the Moon?
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