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In article <37260@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> jfh@reef.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky) writes:
>In article <1992Sep30.092352.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> hporopudas@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes:
>
>>    Unfortunately scientists teach to ordinary peoples presisely what they
>>  talk in private or in public situations all around the world. Ordinary
>>  peoples respect all their words (mostly without any criticism).
>>    This is why these 'wise teachers' are fully responsible for all their
>>  words they have 'teached' to ordinary peoples.
>>
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>Science merely attempts to find the truth through verifyable means, and
>of those things which cannot be proved or disproved, science is silent.
>The scientists themselves are free to believe what they want to after this
>point, but laying the responsibility for anyone elses acceptance of 
>scientists' beliefs on the scientists themsevles is unwarranted. Do you 
>categorically reject the scientific method?
>
>Do you commit blasphemy by using this network created by science?
>
>Jim Hranicky (jfh@reef.cis.ufl.edu)


Science is NOT in the business of finding The Truth.  
Science merely constructs "rational" explanations of 
observable phenomena.  For example, it is impossible 
to "verify" one way or the other whether or not 
molecules exist:  scientists use molecular models 
because they are very good at explaining things we 
see.  There are several schools of thought that hold 
that the explanations that scientists concoct somehow 
approximate The Truth, but this is a philosophical 
(or even theological) position, and more on this 
kind of thing can be found in sci.philosophy.meta and 
sci.philosophy.tech.

-----Greg McColm