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Originally Posted by LesMts
Science doesn't deal in certainties. No good scientist should claim that it does. It looks at what's possible and pulls out what's probable. It's as close as we can get to understanding objective reality.
The products of science work. That's the crucial part of it. I point you again to the the two little quotes by Dawkins and Sokal respectively. They sum up my thoughts on the matter in a nice, concise way.
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I would argue that science has to deal with the same tools as we all do to understand the world and therefore at a wider level has literally no idea of what is possible or probable. It is as close as we can get to objective reality in the sense that it is as equidistant from certainty as absolutely any other understanding of the world. But, like I said we all have to live in the world and after accepting how limited that is science appears to make the most sense. I also understand the sentiment of the two quotes, they are exactly the type of flippant, narrow understanding you can reach when working within an empiricist framework and someone points to a greater scope of knowing.