Can Science Answer All questions?

Mecurious?

I say yes. I believe that we will eventually know:

1.For sure wheter their are people/life forms on other planets

2. What happens when we die

3. If god exists or not.

Any thoughts....

M'

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or... Does the light stay on in the refrigerator or do the light gnomes turn it on and off?

Or.... How do you figure out your wife?

Science is dead in the water on these!

u/d

funkyderek

1.For sure wheter their are people/life forms on other planets

If there is life on other planets, then we will probably know about it eventually. If there is no life on other planets, we will probaby never know for sure.

2. What happens when we die

We already know that. When we die, bodily functions cease and our bodies decompose. If you mean the question of whether there is some sort of afterlife, there may be but if the spirit world remains invisible and ineffable, we will be unable to determine for certain whether it exists or not.

3. If god exists or not.

If a god exists, he can choose to show himself at any time. If he continues not to do this, we can never be certain he's not there. He may - as always - be hiding.

You may have noticed that the answers to these questions are pretty much the same. If the phenomenon in question is revealed to us, then we will know about it, but if not, then we can never be sure (with the possible exception of question 1 and then only if we have examined all the planets in the universe for all possible forms of life). It is for this reason that they are outside the realm of science. It can never be proven that there is no god/afterlife/aliens, because absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and there will always be somewhere for them to hide: spirit world, alternate dimensions etc.

robhic

Maybe not all but thousands or even hundreds of years ago I doubt that people envisioned things we take for granted today. Same as we might think we'll have all the answers one day. It's a little hard to think about but I expect that knowledge will come exponentially faster and years from now people will not think twice about common things that we would (now) see as "futuristic" or "No way!".

Who, today, thinks twice when a plane goes overhead? Now what do you think Moses thought about air traffic? Today's commonplace is yesterday's "No way!"

Robert

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Can Science Answer All questions?

To the extent that the uncertainly principal is not violated.

zen nudist

no, science cannot since there are some fundamental limitations to what science can do....

example-- as the movies like MATRIX and THE 13th FLOOR pointed out, there is no scientific method which

can show that you are not within some sort of simulator and living a dream divorced from the nature of reality in some fashion.

science can only measure and test the contents of the dream, not what may under lie and generate the dream itself.

we are all trapped in the world of our own perceptions and unable to go outside of them to see their true source and nature.

drwtsn32

For the most part science can confirm if something exists, but it cannot tell us if something definitely does NOT exist.

Mecurious?

All good answers so far, but I believe that everntually as science/technology progress's we will know just about everything there is to know. Take for example that we discover that an advanced alien civilization exists. Suppose that this civilization possess's great information and power, they would probably be able to answer quite a few questions for us. I know this sounds far fetched but I believe that in a distant future perhaps thousands of years from now (if we last that long) we will be closer to knowing these fundemental truths. M'

FairMind

I believe that science can answer all questions but that many of the answers will be wrong.

Terry

"How" questions? Yes.

"Why" questions? No.

Can Science Answer All questions?

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