Akvod said:
HappySqurriel said:
I personally don’t think you can claim that it is "Ignorant" to take these positions on certain scientific beliefs while still enjoying the benefits of modern living.
Scientific research can be classified fairly well on a spectrum where you have "Observable Science" on one end of the spectrum and "Theoretical Science" on the other end of the spectrum. "Observable Science" generally deals with determining a cause and effect relationship, and these relationships are often used in practical ways; and tend to be the foundations of the products people use in daily life. "Theoretical Science" generally tries to explain why one of these cause and effect relationships exist.
The results of "Observable Science" are rarely questioned because they’re reproducible, and while the observations may be incomplete they’re rarely incorrect. In contrast "Theoritical Science" is constantly questioned from both within the science and from external groups (for example religious groups) in a large part because the theory can not be proven, theories are often replaced or falsified, and the consequences of the theories may be undesirable.
Now I don’t deny that Natural Selection is a more reasonable theory than Creationism, but that doesn’t (necessarily) disprove creationism; and neither theory has anything to do with the observation that there are chemicals that interact with the physiology of the human body and can be leveraged to treat disease.
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Are you just renaming inductive and deductive reasoning?
We induce some foundational knowledge. Then we use that knowledge to deduce things (example, we observe the force of gravity, let's say by reproducing one of the high school experiments of dropping objects and timing them or something. With an equation, we begin to try some scenarios on the black board).
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I wouldn’t say so, because deductive reasoning can result in conclusions which can be demonstrated while what I would call "Theoretical Science" rarely can.
Edit: With your example of gravity, the "Theoretical Science" would be physicists sitting in a room trying to think of how string theory explains why to objects with mass are attracted to eachother.
