From: Scott Badger (wbadger@psyberlink.net)
Date: Wed Apr 29 1998 - 21:42:52 MDT
>Ian Goddard wrote:
>
>> IAN: If science seeks knowledge, does
>> science seek true or false knowledge?
>
>As I explained knowledge is neither defined as true or false, the only
>attribute of knowledge is that it produces more knowledge and/or
>information. For instance, creationism is not knowledge since it
Science pretty much says that _truth_ is a matter of predictive and external
validity. If we discover a relationship that is replicable and thus
predictable, we tentatively call it truth-like.
>The fact that
>evolutionary theory works does not make it true, and certainly does
>not make creationist theory false.
>
The fact that evolutionary theory is coherent, elegant, and parsimonious
makes it more truth-like than creationism IMO.
>It's even possible an
>inferior intelligence set the algorithm running that in turn created
>us. I would even argue it's possible that we were created the other
>day (or next week) and yet we cannot know. But could we ever
>communicate with our creator? Again, it's a possibility.
Anything's possible I suppose, but why make such outlandish speculations
when more reasonable ones are available?
S. Badger
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