One strength : we can do it in groups.

One weakness : uses models.


What's up with the downvotes. Did I accidentally contradict a dogma?


Ok, allow me to explicitly state the popular belief that I seem to be contradicting here.

Science is perfect. It has no weaknesses.

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[–] [S] 0 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Well it carries on within a system of models, a story. A very useful story that lends itself to communication and rational analysis but still, a story. This fact does not discount the utility of the story but it does indicate, as I said, a vast loss.

You keep offering evidence in support of science but I am not attacking it. I am merely examining its limits.

Must science really be a perfect thing for you. Can't it be just a tool, with strengths and weaknesses like any other?

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    Being able to predict the outcome of an event before it happens, and being able to manipulate the result by manipulating the factors contributing to the outcome is basically my definition of perfection. And science has a better track record than any other methodology.

    The results are not perfect, but it is by far and away the best tool we have. Is that "perfect"? Yeah it's close enough for me.

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