The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158223   Message #3746079
Posted By: Steve Shaw
23-Oct-15 - 07:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
"I grant you we know of no exceptions of major significance but things like turbulent flow could well prove to be inherently beyond science, not just our current techniques. So I see it as an open Question: are there aspects of reality that are inherently beyond science? I would say possibly, but on our current understanding they must be exceedingly rare."

We shouldn't say that anything is inherently beyond science. Not even God. It's simplistic but true to say that the more we get to know, the more we find even greater complexities to solve. It's my guess that that will go on until the end of time. We don't know all the laws of nature and we haven't cracked all the mysteries of the ones we do know. Science is a never-ending process that, er, requires scientists (us). It isn't a static entity that things can be permanently beyond. It doesn't look for proofs or final answers. So I don't believe that anything is beyond that process. God is supposed to be. The people who put him there, by so doing, make him look so idiotic.