Does science have all the answers? What are it's limitations?

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I would like to think anything can be solved and explained in the univers every living being in this mass world we live in can be most commonly be answered in the common language of the univers no matter what spices you are or what planet your from and that language is the knowledge of math and its never ending equations which well end in the same conclusion there for relating and simply reaching the potential of understanding of the univers and its inhabitans seeking the ever quest of the truth.

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Science is a process of rigorous thought, questions and experimentation.  In theory it is nondogmatic, but open to constant revision.  When it comes to the physical world this process is the best tool we have to answer our questions in a way that predicts outcomes and explains origins.  But it does not now nor will it ever have all the answers.

Science doesn't have the answers, they come from inside ourselves.  Science is only one of the vehicles used to accumulate the information needed the make the decision.

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no, but it's he best bet for answering all our questions we have.

this quote from skeptics magazine(vol.13 #2) sums it really well. "science is powerful because it often provides explanations before observations are made. the nature of scientific theoriesis to make surprising predictions- the more surprising, the more confident we can be in the theory should the prediction be fulfilled."

in every period,man is not satisfied with the existing science.........his wish for something more makes him to invent more and more..........thus due to his deep urge,science in future can answer any thing

 

Whatever we can't  measure and haven't developed a tool to do so yet. Thats where the limit is. I am sure there are so many things it will take quiet a time to explain.

Science is a method for acquiring knowledge. As such, it does not have "all" the answers. Its limitations are human limitations - that is, it is a human effort, and as such, fallible, as humans are. It's strength is that it's self-correcting - over time, the mistakes are discovered and corrected. Knowledge accumulates, theories improve over time.

 

If atheism is a religion, then health is a disease - Clark Adams

Science, as a reasoned, systematized way of gathering, defining, and interpreting observed reality, is limited to what can be reasoned from our limited perspective. Much is understood of what we can pick up, handle, and dismantle in the labs. But the great majority of rocks have not been examined.

Less, but still a lot, can be said about things that can be seen, but not taken. Less again can be told of what cannot be seen, but still much is learned in ways of listening.

The things astronomers and astrophysicists determine from the light, radio waves, high energy particles, and occasional meteors they work with is amazing, but they are stuck with the tiniest testable portion of the realm they try to explore.

Huxley, Darwin's so-called "Bulldog", said that we should "not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated and demonstrable." ("Science and Christian Tradition", New York, 1896 pg 125) My science teacher long ago taught my class that events are not to be counted science fact unless they are repeatedly observed by multiple qualified observers. We may trust one testimony; the considered event may truly have happened, we may even be able to reconstruct the event, but a unique event in the past does not become science fact because we think it happened.

The realms of reality are being explored in so many different ways, but not everything is demonstrated and demonstrable. We might be able to demonstrate how something could have happened, but if no observers give testimony of witnessing the event, our explanations of events deep in the past should not be presented as science fact.

As has been said, humans are fallible, and so there are cases where the demonstrated and demonstrable rule has been blown off in favor of labelling favored theories "science fact". When we very much want everyone to believe a particular idea, if we are not firm about following that rule we can wind up dedicating our lives to bolstering a lie.

Science is our most effective human-based method of determining, defining, and utilizing reality. But as with a powerful car, you need to follow certain wise rules of reason or science goes out of control.

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