Yet another Problem with the Petition Project is the Science — A complete lack
of objective science!
The problem is that people have mistaken a simple narrative «superficially in the culturally potent idiom
of objective science» for a profound scientific insight.
His claims must be treated with appropriate skepticism, particularly when he ventures outside the realm
of objective science and into the pandemonium of politics and public affairs.
3) Given (2) how is it possible to discriminate between the notions
of objective science and Tautological Accretion and Revisionism (TAR)?
The researchers, who published their findings in Environmental Research Letters, admit they may never convince the most steadfast chemtrail believers, but they wish to build a foundation
of objective science to inform the general population so they won't believe such a «paranoid fantasy.»
Finally Kant banished metaphysics from the realm
of objective science because, unlike physics, it deals with realities not perceptible to the senses.
Ironically, since the time Wiebe began his crusade the kind of intellectual agenda that worries him most — calling into question the very canons
of objective science — has entered the academic scene not through theologians but through postmodern philosophy and radical forms of cultural criticism.
Not exact matches
In
science, such an utter failure on one's predictive track record is a fair and
objective measure
of the falsification
of one's hypotheses.
«Ilse and John are committed to taking MaRS forward to the next phase
of its mandate — a bold set
of objectives to capitalize on our immense research output in
science and technology.
The conclusion just reached suggests that supposedly value - free political
science has had value commitments in spite
of itself, at least to the extent that it affirms happiness to be a private matter.5 In addition, I am persuaded that political
science explicitly based upon a preferential view
of self - interest always implicitly invokes an
objective criterion
of happiness.
But, like Samuel Florman, who fears that «flights through cyberspace, however energizing they may be for the imagination, may weaken the
objective rationality needed to do good engineering», I agree with Alan Cromer that the formal linear thinking needed to do
science «goes against the grain
of traditional human thinking, which is associative and subjective» (Florman 1994).
Röpke's approach recognizes the
objective aspects
of the economic
science but insists that normative values lie at its core; a healthy polity must move beyond calculations
of utility if it is to uphold just and humane economic institutions.
This theological perspective has a profound implications for the correction
of the scientific epistemology, which tends to regard as the
objective and objectifying process, although nowadays there are efforts to correct this situation among the scientists and philosophers
of science.
Hey, Dean: You're another fine, shining example why Bible thumpers are mindless sheep and fools who are afraid
of objective observation,
science and education... from the DICTIONARY:
Science, however, is a partial,
objective attempt to discover facts about the empirical aspects
of existence; Christian faith is an inclusive, committed approach to the totality
of life's meaning as this comes to us through the revelation
of God in Jesus Christ.
The present - day methodology
of history and
science as an accurate accounting
of historical events and an
objective description
of physical processes simply didn't exist when these stories were composed.
Sure this still shows the
objective, experiential heart
of science but that is not all that
science is.
I do not think questions
of faith are ones that are ultimately decided by empirical and
objective proof — that is for the realm
of science.
He brings out the subjective reception
of objective, ontological, truth and love in all our knowing (see n. 34), directly denied by materialistic philosophy
of science.
science is not everything, the problem is when the critical and
objective philosophy
of science is accepted as absolute in reality.God is beyond logic at this point
of our consciousness, The process
of gods will manfistation is evolution which accepts all variables in the process, the input could be not what scienctists wants.Thats why faith or religion is part
of reality.
Rudolf Otto in Germany, Gerardus van der Leeuw in the Netherlands and other assertively theological scholars discarded their predecessor's legacy and recaptured for confessional interests a discipline on the verge
of becoming an
objective science.
They consider
science a dubious venture even though
objective evidence
of it's success is everywhere around us for all to independently verify.
A review
of a book by Donald Wiebe attacking present day religious studies as less than the
objective science they were originally supposed to be.
Science is an
objective tool that gives us results we have to interpret and then can use to prove and disprove theories with varying levels
of probability.
Just as we may argue that there is a unity
of aims,
objectives and approach underlying and generating empirical
science, however greatly scientific beliefs may change and develop from age to age, so we may argue that there is an analogous unity underlying and generating Christian belief and practice.
to claim
science somehow eliminates metaphysics is to fail to understand the difference between
science (a * human * [& thus philosophically subjective] discipline
of observation) and scientism (putting
objective faith in
science).
3) you appear to be confusing
science (a discipline
of human observation... and therefore — philosophically speaking — a subjective enterprise) with scientism (putting metaphysical faith in that human observation — an
objective enterprise).
Maybe it would be better to say that I think
science is a more accurate (as opposed to «true») way
of trying to understand what
objective reality actually is?
True,
objective science like the observations outlined by Charles Darwin describe aspects
of Nature that simply MUST BE.
A recognition
of the implications
of the I - Thou relation for epistemology would not mean a rejection
of those essential and eminently useful
objective techniques which the social
sciences have developed.
It appears likely that scientific psychology will eventually fulfill its promise as the culminating natural
science of man and that this will occur when the essential data
of critical self - awareness are integrated with the methods
of objective behavioral observation and inference.
My
objective in this short essay has been to show that in «stripping off the shell
of the out -
of - date
science, we find the permanently valid kernel
of... [Aquinas's] thought on the soul,» as John Saward wrote in Redeemer in the Womb.
Modern
science's discovery
of objective facts is no exception to this basic pattern
of human observation.
The physical
sciences and the life
sciences also yield their full harvest
of knowledge about man only when the understanding gained through direct self - consciousness is used in the interpretation
of the methods and results
of objective scientific investigation and
of technical invention.
The facts
of science are not hard, cold, inert chunks
of objective information lying about in the external world waiting to be discovered and accumulated by the industrious investigator.
Just as physics reveals little
of significance about man until one reflects on the enterprises
of science and technology, so scientific psychology, aiming to out - do physics in
objective rigor, can yield little insight about man until the distinctive human quality
of self - awareness is acknowledged as an essential factor in psychological inquiry.
It is a commonplace
of modern
science that facts are one thing and values quite another, that we can rely on
objective scientific knowledge, while subjective metaphysical thinking (the logical positivists would say) is dubious and to be avoided whenever possible.
They will put all
objective knowledge in the realm
of science, and leave to religion only subjective belief.
But the purposes, goals, uses and meanings got left outside the concept
of scientific explanation — in the mind, in the church, in the domain
of ethics, relative and subjective, while
science was said to be
objective, positivistically true.
Christianity, and in fact any religion that believes in a personal god / creator, has two fundamental flaws that have absolutely nothing to do with
science and everything to do with logic, which incidentally forms the foundation for the only universal /
objective truths
of reality (putting aside the Cartesian dualism problem).
Modern empiricism, on the other hand, which locates the possibilities
of science in the brain (as if the brain and its patterns
of order were not also in part a construction
of the scientist's mind), precisely reverses this: the outside world known by the senses is alone the seat
of what is — if anything is — universal,
objective, real and certain.
If, as
science claims (and its claims are stronger because they are verifiable empirically), the
objective meaning
of the world is what
science says it is, then theological talk (if it claims to talk about the same world) must be metaphorical and subjective.
Science seeks in the
objective world the causes
of all the events that transpire in it.
There are,
of course, questions which are prior in principle to the empirical
sciences and which are presupposed to an
objective and adequate statement
of the problems
of a possible real connection between man and the animal kingdom.
Consideration
of both the methods and the limitations
of science is a significant classroom
objective.
Among philosophers
of science the «idealists» emphasize the role
of man's mind and the structure
of ideas, while the «realists» emphasize the
objective structure
of the physical world.
In physics, for example, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle or principle
of indeterminacy has been interpreted in three ways: 1) that the «laws
of nature» are deterministic, and that any uncertainty is due to human ignorance, which in due time will be resolved by
science (Einstein), 2) uncertainty can be always explained by present experimental limitations (Neils Bohr), and 3) indeterminacy is an
objective characteristic
of reality Werner Heisenberg).
First, Wilson seeks to unify knowledge by construing all knowledge as the kind
of objective, empirically verifiable information intended by the natural
sciences.
We need a new grounding
of the very concepts
of «truth» and «nature» as
objective realities in the dynamic and inter-relative cosmos uncovered by modern
science.
At the same time, however, they wanted to affirm fully and without question, lest they be thought religious fundamentalists, the same
objective, analytic modes
of modern
science and historical analysis in every other domain besides faith.