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RE: In Defense of the Scientific and the Spiritual - Part 1 : What is Science, Really?
At what point does an idea fail to be science?
A lot of what we believe about the Universe is based not just on physicsl observation with our eyes against a telescope, but what we can deduce from mathematic equations. We can't go into the past and see with our eyes the destruction of the dinosaurs 65 myo, nor can we witness the event that created the moon. We can't see the supernova that made the iron in our blood.
Yet scientists have been quite clever in figuring these out and making a valid timeline of events.
What ideas do you call scientific vs philosophical?
My point was that science is a tool we use for explaining our shared objective reality.
It explains the "how of it" and it is a collection of tools, based on rigor with the scientific method.
There is no point at which an idea fails to be science. Because there is no point at which an idea becomes science.
Instead, we validate our ideas as being an objective description of reality, using science as a tool for doing so.
An idea can be validated as being objectively real with science though.
I'm getting to the other stuff as well. But an idea can be tested with science to validate it as a description of some subset of objective reality. That's all I'm saying.
This didn't exactly answer my question...