Re: You say that science is not about truth, meaning, knowledge, or faith

reany_at_asu.edu
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: 4 Mar 2005 12:44:49 -0800

AllYou! wrote:
> <reany@asu.edu> wrote in message
> news:1109963170.332596.238700@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...

[snip]

> > > > The purpose of this 'model' of yours is what?
> > >
> > > As to the purpose, primarily it's survival, secondarily, a more
> > > comfortable experience, thirdly, curiosity.
> >
> > How is this scientific model used for survival? And what is the
> > curiosity value of it?
>
> Those are silly questions.

Sometimes those are the best kind.

>
> If I can predict a quantity of force will result from the
deceleration of a rock as it
> contacts my head, I can avoid it if it's too great. If I can predict
the length of a day,
> I can plan a hunting trip. If I can predict the length of a season,
I can plant food. If
> I can predict the force with which a rock of a given mass will strike
an object as it
> falls from a given distance, I can sit in a tree at a sufficient
height with a rock of
> sufficient mass so as to kill an animal as it passes below.

On what basis do you know what these "predictions" are? And how do you
know the correlations these "predictions" have to the phenomena you
described above?

Patrick

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