Re: ClownHall Columnist: Why can't we have a rational debate

On Aug 12, 1:33 pm Wade wrote thus:
> And science may well reveal truth, or it may not. Whether or
> not it does, is not solely dependent on the success of scientific
> models to explain phenominology. But you still aren't going
> to understand, are you?

I am going to argue that science's ability to arrive at truth is
primarily, if not soley, dependent on "the success of scientific
models to explain phenominology". When such a model comes to an
approximation of the real world, in whatever way, is when it reveals
something about the physical world that creates those circumstances.
Even models that are only loosely accurate are useful in this way. This
is not very different from the way that all forms of observation,
whether scientific, practical, philosophical become a basis for
knowledge. The form of the truth that is gained is rarely of a separate
form, however different in subject it may be.

It is perhaps for this reason that there can exist a contest between ID
and evolution. However elegant evolution is as a scientific model, its
perception by people does not necessarily conform to this fact. What
does separate evolution as 'truth,' as accepted by people, is that the
knowledge of it can be of great value to society. This is not dependent
upon its perception.

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