[Avodah] emuna and science

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 07:50:12AM -0800, saul newman via Avodah wrote:
: A purely scientifically minded person will not accept something inherently
: untestable as fact. At most he'll say it's a possibility. To be religious
: requires turning a blind eye to scientific method.

This is meaningless. Science only handles empirical reality. It has no way
to discuss right vs wrong, meaning, or religion. So no ma'amin could be
"apurely scientifically minded person" on those grounds -- but neither
can any moral person.

But it doesn't require turning a blind eye, it requires having an
intellectual toolset of which science is only one of the tools. Then
science says something is possible, and other modes of reasoning can
tell you it is indeed true.

For that matter, science can say something is impossible, another mode
of reasoning says it is indeed true, and that forces you to reinvestigate
where was the flaw in one's thinking -- on the science side, or elsewhere.

And that's not jetisonning scientific thought altogether.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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