On 2021-01-11, Martin Gregorie  wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:56:41 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 04:43:50 +0000 The Natural Philosopher
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Physicists started to realise that physics wasn't about uncovering
>>> truths so much as simply creating models that worked. Karl Popper
>>> elucidated the whole position of science rather well in that respect.
>>> And once you move science out of the realm of 'truth discovery' and
>>> into the realm of 'model invention', you run into the Problem of
>>> Induction.
>>
>>  I've always thought of science as a mechanism for pruning out
>> guesses that don't work rather than a mechanism for finding the truth.

Hmm, interesting...  That does fit with the idea of coming arbitrarily
close to the truth without actually getting there.

> Yes, agreed, but there's another essential ingredient: critical thinking.
> The scientific method doesn't work if the would-be scientist doesn't
> understand or use it.

That nicely takes care of creation science...

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