01 FEB 2012 by ideonexus

 Science is Phrophetic

All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.
Folksonomies: prophecy prescience
Folksonomies: prophecy prescience
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It predicts the future.

28 MAY 2011 by ideonexus

 Many Great Scientific Minds Were Religious

A great many leading lights of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment-Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle—were distinctly religious and viewed science as a better means of understanding God's creation and the laws governing it.
Folksonomies: science religion
Folksonomies: science religion
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And saw science as a better way to understand the creation.

18 MAY 2011 by ideonexus

 We Must Interrogate Nature

Greek mathematics was a brilliant step forward. Greek science, on the other hand - its first steps rudimentary and often uninformed by experiment - was riddled with error. Despite the fact that we cannot see in pitch darkness, they believed that vision depends on a kind of radar that emanates from the eye, bounces off what we're seeing, and returns to the eye. (Nevertheless, they made substantial progress in optics.) Despite the obvious resemblance of children to their mothers, they believed ...
Folksonomies: superstition free inquiry
Folksonomies: superstition free inquiry
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Being non-superstitious isn't enough.