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A great example of of two individuals involved in a dialog who "do not speak
the
same language."
There are some things, that are important, that "science does not pretend or
care to explain."
Well that is why we have philosophy, theology (study about god), etc. Perhaps
tomorrow when science has some demonstrable and reproducible facts or data on
the subject, we may have a different perspective from philosophy.
For now we need to "understand the model" which other disciplines are trying to
understand and explain. If science does not / cannot do that, then we should
not stand in the way of others from doing so.
What the heck, so often in medicine we develop treatments based on a
clinician's or researcher's "theoretical model" of what is happening and how
(drugs) to modulate that "theoretical model." Twenty years later we find that
model of the disease process and the treatment were totally flawed. The same
occurs in many other fields of science.
Regards, GL
--------------- Ivo wrote:
From: "Santosh Helekar"
<<The subject line of this thread is factually wrong. Science has
already explained life as a natural phenomenon.
**Nothing is wrong. You are wrong in your interpretation. I am referring to the
words of the Holy Father Benedict XVI who refers to the mystery of human
existence ("life" here is human existence): "Science cannot explain human life
or existence". Science cannot alone explain the mystery of human existence.
<<What science does not pretend or care to explain is the so-called meaning of
life, or what life means to different types of people from a purely subjective
standpoint.
**When Science pretends to be the only solution to the riddle of human
existence, it also pretends to explain the ":meaning of life" (not "the
so-called meaning of life") of the rational human being. Man cannot survive
without the meaning of his existence. This is witnessed by human history. It is
religion (together with philosophy, which was preceded by mythology) that
provides the meaning of human existence.
