Science is a method for testing claims about the natural world, not an immutable compendium of absolute truths. The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Science tests claims about the natural world rather than providing absolute truths. Fundamentalists fall outside science because they start with fixed answers instead of testing them.
- In plain terms
- Science tests ideas instead of holding fixed truths, and those with fixed answers are not doing science.
- What can you take from it?
- Distinguish science as a testing method from dogmatic inquiry that ignores evidence.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is science ever absolute?
- Where do you draw the line between science and belief?
Another view
Some philosophical questions may not be testable yet still hold value.
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