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MSimon Posted: Not to mention transistors which are proabalistic devices. Yet the probabilities seem well enough defined that we can run our civilization on them. MSimon that?s just it, science works. That?s what I love about it and life is better because of it. On the other hand, (using my best Ho...

Cripes!(I do live in Minnesota) My posts come off as really confrontational. I picture the voice of a whiney cousin reading what I wrote. Not my intent at all. These are just questions I like to ask. I am happy there is a group willing to think about them and reply. Also I feel I need something to t...

scareduck Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ckrucks wrote: In the odd quantum reality it is my understanding that it is difficult (if not impossible) to make predictions and the only useful avenue left is ...

Mike Holmes Posted: Very simply, to me, science explains how things work, through observation. To me, I can only say, science works. We do what we are doing because of it. 93143 Posted: Regarding science, I consider it to be essentially observing/fiddling with nature to figure out how it works, or ...

Thanks for the resource reference Helius! I think I found it on-line. @scareduck Thinking on this post jarred some memories of philosophy course work I had way back when. As I see it anything that engages and makes one think harder is a good thing...so thank you. If the mission of science is to atte...

Long time lurker, first time poster. I have been following the recent raging debate in the theory forum and would love to read thoughts on: How this community describes/explains "science"? What are we doing when we do science? What is good/bad science? What is the differeance between science, religi...