"Believing in science" - what does that mean?

[wil]

In science we take all these unknowns..all these pieces of the evolutionary, archeology, paleontology puzzle and group the fishes with fishes and animals and insects with their kind and discover fishes whose fins became like legs and then find some with legs that returned to the water...(fish - tetrapods - Pakicetus - whales!)

Its true the pieces are all over the map and get rearranged and shuffled as old hypothesis are disproved and new hypothesis come up.

Which is why for me, I want a scripture that indicates which falls under myth, allegory, parable, fantasy, hyperbole, and fact....as in Sunday school it was drilled as all fact and unquestionable.....that aint science.

 

[Vasu Devan]

One thing I often mention, which can't be repeated enough, is that good science can predict when applied. So if someone believes in a scientific conclusion, but all or most of the predictions that come from this conclusion end up failing, then it is poor science.

Perhaps an addendum to this is how quickly we jump on a few right answers proving the whole. Some believers in a country feel truly empowered by modern prophecy comes true but scientistics quickly dismiss it as coincidence. But one study coming true on some point that numerous other studies have failed to result in them jumping on it as proof.

While I support the empirical method for physical data, the presence of too many uncertain factors in this reality leading to replication crisis and cagey mind of Man makes me wonder how well practiced it is in actual modern science which has become a belief system of its own.

 

[moralorel]

In science we take all these unknowns..all these pieces of the evolutionary, archeology, paleontology puzzle and group the fishes with fishes and animals and insects with their kind and discover fishes whose fins became like legs and then find some with legs that returned to the water...(fish - tetrapods - Pakicetus - whales!)

Its true the pieces are all over the map and get rearranged and shuffled as old hypothesis are disproved and new hypothesis come up.

Which is why for me, I want a scripture that indicates which falls under myth, allegory, parable, fantasy, hyperbole, and fact....as in Sunday school it was drilled as all fact and unquestionable.....that aint science.

It wasn't intended to be science. If I were to write a story about some crazy things I witnessed, I wouldn't expect anyone to accept my writing as a science book. So if some 80-year old man led me and some friends through a sea that he had just parted, I wouldn't expect to be mentioned in a science journal for my writing.