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What is Science?
1. Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
2. The business of science is to find uniformities, such as the laws of motion and the law of gravitation, to which, so far as our experience extends, there are no exceptions. 21%  21%  [ 4 ]
3. Falsifiability is the criterion of demarcation between science and non-science. 21%  21%  [ 4 ]
4. Science at its core is empiricism. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
5. Science is knowledge that is observable, testable, and repeatable in the present. 21%  21%  [ 4 ]
6. OTHER. 37%  37%  [ 7 ]
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19 May 2008, 1:23 am

Science is flawed by the people who conduct it, the scientist's .

The problem is if they find something that they can not accept they will not accept it, plain and simple.

Science has always been stopped by people in the past and will be stopped by people in the future ,Galileo knew that first hand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

I don't disagree with science as a whole , rather I disagree with the people who preform its methods. For the human mind has something that gets in the way of everything science is. The egos of people are the bane of science.

Scientists these days lack an imagination and there for will oppose any new idea that they come across before they even begin to do testing on it.
For instance , if I were to tell you I could move Your house with my mind right now , what would you think? Of course I cannot do such a thing , but suppose for one moment I could and I wanted you to do testing on it. Suppose I asked you to use science to prove it. The ego would get in the way from the get go . And there for comes the fundamental flaw in science.



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23 May 2008, 12:57 am

Scientists don't oppose any new idea prior to its being tested. They are skeptical of such ideas, however, until evidence has accrued supporting them.



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23 May 2008, 1:08 am

just-me wrote:
Scientists these days lack an imagination and there for will oppose any new idea that they come across before they even begin to do testing on it.
For instance , if I were to tell you I could move Your house with my mind right now , what would you think? Of course I cannot do such a thing , but suppose for one moment I could and I wanted you to do testing on it. Suppose I asked you to use science to prove it. The ego would get in the way from the get go . And there for comes the fundamental flaw in science.


No, this would actually be pretty easy to test. I'd just stand outside my house and tell you to move it. If you able to move it, I'd believe you. If you couldn't, I'd be skeptical.

I don't see how ego enters into this ...



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23 May 2008, 10:33 am

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/science


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