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The New DU. Reply #115: What does science "support?"
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Wed Dec-14-05 03:16 PM
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Science is a tool by which we accomplish and explain things. Science itself doesn't support anything. Within science a certain hypothesis might be supported by some evidence, but outside of science, and there is very much beyond the reach of our science, nothing is "supported." Things can only be "supported" by science when they are taken within the realm of science. At this time (if time such as we know it exists!) the metaphor of an immortal soul is outside the boundries of our science.
Saying "science has nothing to say about those beliefs" is not at all the same as saying "science does not support them."
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