Reply To: Why do you believe in Science?

Lakewood001,

“It actually makes allot of sense to predict the future based on what you know to happen in the past from your personal experience.”

Why does that “make a lot of sense”? Your only reason for thinking it makes a lot of sense is your observations in the past projected unto the future. This is circular reasoning.

“Actually it’s the exact opposite! Until people started using the scientific method it was assumed things in the world were arbitrary: i.e. when there was an eclipse everyone would think it was a sign they did something wrong and/or be afraid that God put out the sun and they had to pray to get it to come back out.”

Two points: (1) I wasn’t discussing historically what people thought/believed, I was discussing a potentially logically sound basis for science; (2) It also isn’t true historically. People didn’t believe everything was arbitrary before modern science changed things. Natural rules were believed to exist before Frances Bacon and scienctific method, they just weren’t as observation based and systematically delineated. (It could be what you describe existed in some pagan societies, but it certainly wasn’t the case in monotheistic cultures or in Greece. Eclipses and other relatively rare events might have been understood differently because they did not appear to follow any known Natural Rule or LAW)