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Old 12-11-2005, 01:02 AM
imported_luckyme imported_luckyme is offline
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Default Re: My Truth, Your Truth, The Truth

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Science is not concerned with truth. All that matters is whether or not a system, model or theory is useful.

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Somebody somewhere disagrees- (from Wiki)
"Science (from Latin scientia - knowledge) is a system of acquiring knowledge based on empiricism, experimentation, and methodological naturalism aimed at finding out the truth."

I'm not using Wiki as an authority, just that the view you express is one way of approaching the theories and models science uses. If in one
situation the jello model of light gave more useful results than the quantum model, most scientists would still consider the quantum model "truer".
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