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Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
*sigh*

You're trolling us with this, right? You can't possibly be serious. Science has absolutely *nothing* directly to do with math, measurement or significance.
I'm being accused of trolling when you're saying science has nothing to do with mathematics?

Could you give me one scientific theory which does not depend on empirical evidence that is processed mathematically?

And yes, science has nothing to do with significance, which is what my original post said. Science tells us nothing about significance, so anyone who claims to know the meaning of life is being unscientific.

People who say science tells us the meaning of life are misusing the word science.


Thank you for presenting your argument in the form of a link, and here is what that link actually says:

Based on observations of a phenomenon, a scientist may generate a model. This is an attempt to describe or depict the phenomenon in terms of a logical physical or mathematical representation.

The heart of the scientific method is to observe the physical world, record empirical data numerically in some way and then use those numbers to see whether your theory is supported or not.

Anything which fails to use empirical data at some stage is unscientific. String Theory was heavily criticised for this reason.

Last edited by krisse; 2009-11-14 at 23:23.