SCIENCE TRUTH AND REALITY ESSAYS

"This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis
than never understanding anything.

"For anyone who had experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that infinity of other truths of which he understands nothing." — Galileo Galilei

72 Nobel Luareates agreed that the essentials of science are:

  • It is guided by natural law.
  • It has to be explanatory by reference to natural law.
  • It is testable against the empirical world.
  • Its conclusions are tentative (are not necessarily the final word).
  • It is falsifiable.

It should be noted that the reference to natural law does not in any way rule out the existence of god but is only intended to prevent scientists from using God as an explanation when they reach a point where existing knowledge and theories do not provide an explanation. The fact that science does not and should not invoke god as the explanation, does not mean that science is in any way rejecting god's existence or claiming proof of nonexistence or proving that God is at some underlyng level necessary to "breath fire into the equations" of science.

ESSAYS:

The Scientific Method

Philosophy of Science

IN DEFENSE OF SCIENCE

Science criticism

Science ADMITTEDLY wrong for 50 years

The threat of unbridled science

The truth of science

Science's inherent assumptions

The Limits of Science

Objectivity and uncertainty in science, the reality of uncertain science

Questions worth considering

Questions for science to answer

Science and the origin of the univers

Things science will probably never explain

Science models and reality

Nn-math science fairly simple with the internet

A proposed adaptation of Open Science, focusing on guidelines for knowledge claim