Thursday, January 27, 2005

The Limits of Science

Science will never be able to prove or disprove *anything* that is
supernatural. "Supernatural" means "above or outside of nature," and
science can deal only with the realm of cause and effect that is nature.
It deals in consistent and repeated observations of nature, theories
concerning the patterns of those observations, and replicable
experimentation. If something--God or ghosts or the Force or the human
spirit--is supernatural it is, by definition, outside the realm of
science and science cannot say anything, positive or negative, about it.

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