• Question: Do you believe in things that science can't prove?

    Asked by chocolatemilk to Angeline, Catherine, Luke, Philip, Shona on 10 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Angeline Burrell

      Angeline Burrell answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Yes, of course! There are a whole lot of questions that science can’t answer, like are there other universes. Science is for questions that are falsifiable, or can be proven true or false. Philosophy and metaphysics are two academic fields that deal with non-falsifiable questions.

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      Shona Whittam answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Yes I do. There are a lot of things science can’take explain. Scientist don’t fully understand how the placebo effect works & why yawns are contagious.

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      Philip Moriarty answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Science doesn’t ever really prove anything. Proofs are for maths, not science. Science is really a series of best guesses — we can never be entirely certain that a better guess isn’t around the corner.

      That said, why would I believe something for which there is no evidence? There are an infinite number of possibilities if we remove a criterion for any type of evidence. For example, I could say that I believe that the universe/multiverse was sneezed out of the nose of the Great Green Arkleseizure [ http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Green_Arkleseizure ]. Can anyone definitively prove me wrong?

      Or I could say that I believe that there’s an invisible and entirely undetectable Wookie/goblin/unicorn sitting right next to me in another dimension. Again, if I don’t require evidence who can prove me wrong?

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