ANSWERS: 4
  • science as far as I kown is a way to help us know about this amazing world.It's to touch ,to calculate ,to predict and to control.Love,conscience,soul,life,etc could be explained by specific area of science now or at least in the future IF THEY DO EXIST. This world is made of all kinds of amazing elements in all kinds of forms.There're things we could see,feel,touch ,however,there're things in other forms that we may can't see,touch but we can feel . something that can't be in your sight doesn't mean they don't exist and whether it exist or not CAN'T be simply judged by the less developed human science till now .
  • Anything is possible. This is the mistake most commonly made by creationists. For something to be currently unexplainable by science does not, then, mean the supernatural is at work. A thousand years ago we couldn't detect cells, radiation or a nebula a couple light years away. Now we can detect all of those things and prove they exist. One hundred years ago we couldn't detect a plane or boat without line of sight. Now we can find them from very far away. Realistically, from space, we can see the whole world. These things are mundane to you now, but once upon a time they were the stuff of fairy tales. In another thousand years who knows what science will find and learn how to find. Perhaps gods. Perhaps consciousness itself. Perhaps all that will still be a mystery. I can't wait to find out!
  • Is it possible? Sure, but science studies EVIDENCE. If you can't provide evidence, that doesn't prove that invisible blue monkeys don't exist. They're just not a subject of SCIENTIFIC STUDY, until somebody finds evidence. Sure, all righteous folks BELIEVE in invisible blue monkeys. We just don't have any evidence for a researcher to examine. I myself myself believe in the Holy Buffalo Trinity. They graze on the lush green grass in my back yard. Like all great spirits they are invisible, of course, so we can't see them. But is it possible that they exist? You betcha. I love, serve, worship, desire, adore, belong to, need, am created by and for, loved by, fulfilled by, cared for, satisfied, defined, set free by, justified, strengthened, comforted, healed by and heading for eternal life in the Great Green Pasture with the One, True, Holy, and Alcoholic Buffalo Trinity. The Holy Buffalo Trinity love me and hear my prayers, and answer as they see fit. It doesn't matter that I have no evidence. The important thing is that I BELIEVE in them and they will SAVE me. Below: Artist's rendition of Holy Buffalo. ================================
  • The question could be paraphrased: "Is it possible that physicalism is false, and how would science know?" The answers are "yes, in principle", and "it wouldn't", respectively. Science is naturalistic, so anything that's specifically non-natural can't be addressed by science, even though potentially we could have a reason to say that such things exist. Just be careful not to take this as an excuse to believe anything you want. If it's non-natural and beyond the scope of science, we have nothing in place to distinguish the correct from the incorrect, all we have are ideas that seem to originate in intuition. But there's a twist, because today intuition seems entirely natural and open to objective scientific study. So if we can understand the IDEA of, say, religiosity in terms of intuitive ideas, with intuition being reducible to naturalistic processes, then it's clear that religion doesn't have any divine origin. The things you mention follow similar lines. For instance, love can be described as a mixture of loyalty, trust, sexual attraction, convenient pairing, and so on, all perfectly understandable in evolutionary psychology. It's a survival instinct, or derived from survival instincts. Not too long ago, the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky was thought to be unexplainable, too, or at least so beyond our intellectual reach that we thought we could safely call it magic. Now even children find it natural to think of the Sun as a giant ball of burning gas, several orders of magnitude bigger than the Earth, and the Earth orbits it, and so on. As history shows, if you ascribe to a magical universe, you have no way to gauge the correctness of your ideas, and you risk developing ideas that are later shown to be completely wrong. Historically, stubbornly maintaining such wrong ideas have held back science for hundreds of years, preventing it from improving (and saving) human lives on a truly epic scale. Without stretching it too much, you could say that "magical world-views have cost billions of lives already". The safe and intellectually honest thing to do is what science does - make no assumptions about anything that we can't currently study. If any situation calls for a guess, go for the simplest guess, because it's most likely to be the right one.

Copyright 2023, Wired Ivy, LLC

Answerbag | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy