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Inlägg #21: Postat: 2002-10-10 13:51:00
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JoeHill |
Frederik: If you have a model in your head before you have your results, you might be biased to pick out the results that fit your model. Thats a pitfall.
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Inlägg #22: Postat: 2002-10-10 18:19:00
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Frederik |
Sorry, Joe. But science always works through models and theories. Before you make an experiment you write a hypothesis based on a models/theoryies, then you make the experiment and measurements, and then you draw conclusions. Its not a pitfall, its a limitation thats inherent to the scientific method.
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Inlägg #23: Postat: 2002-10-10 18:24:00
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Frederik |
...as for religion not being a science: absolutely true. Its more of a philosophy, and to put it very superficially its only control method are the reason and intuition of fellow believers theres by the way much more critical debating in for instance the Catholic church than you may think....
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Inlägg #24: Postat: 2002-10-10 18:26:00
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Frederik |
However, remember that I said that religion and science have not much overlap. Science might help in building an atomic bomb, but it has nothing to say about how it should be used. It only describes the factual dimension of a multidimensional reality, so to speak. If its your only criterion for truth then you miss a big part of the picture.
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Inlägg #25: Postat: 2002-10-14 13:39:00
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JoeHill |
Frederik: Everything is a pitfall if you are biased. Religiuos people are very biased, much like Hendrik Schön. That was my point!
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Inlägg #26: Postat: 2002-10-15 10:47:00
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Frederik |
Schön wasnt biased, he was manipulative and deceiving. I mentioned him to show that science is a human activity, and also prone to mistakes and misuse. As for being biased: Ive known agricultural scientists in Brazil who were so biased in their scientific view what they called the truth that they were unable to see the socio-political implications of their work. Science only gives answers to some questions; by far not all.
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