Posted by alexandra_k on January 2, 2006, at 22:48:14
In reply to Re: Astrology ?alexandra_k, posted by Larry Hoover on January 1, 2006, at 23:14:38
> But need everything have an explanation?
Hmm. Well lets see... Scientist A observes a phenomena and Scientists B and C get all excited. 'Calm down' says scientist A 'I don't think that event has an explanation'.
Is that acceptable?
(Sometimes people don't want to know - but that is a seperate issue)
> Is it inherent to the Canberra Plan, to explain everything?
It is inherent in scientific theory and has thus become part of the plan, yup. The idea isn't to explain everything... But the idea is that all naturalistic phenomena can be given a naturalistic explanation.
You see... If we don't believe that all naturalistic phenomena has a naturalistic explanation then why would we bother looking for a naturalistic explanation? If we reject that assumption... Then haven't we given up on a scientific explanation of the natural world?
That is not to say that science is immune to revision, of course. Maybe... Physics needs to give a little in order to incorporate consciousness (for example)...
Mmmmm. Good butter tart Larry ;-)
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