By BLACKSUN
Added: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:00:00 UTC

Thanks to John Blackman for the link.

Reposted from:
http://www.blacksunjournal.com/science/847_atheist-metaphysics-and-religious-equivocation_2007.html




The diagram represents the "Knowledge Paradigm" of science. It says simply and visually:

We have a very limited scope of knowledge. Everything we do know about our universe, we have learned through the scientific method. That which is outside our circle of knowledge, we seek to discover. We do not accept any new information about our universe into this circle of knowledge without sufficient evidence, and we only accept that evidence when instrumentation or multiple observers thoroughly corroborate it. In this manner, we seek to carefully and prudently expand the boundaries of our circle of understanding further into the great unknown. We accept that no matter how far we expand that boundary, there will always be much more to learn. Therefore we accept and make peace with the unknown, for it will always be with us.

As reasonable and sufficient as the Knowledge Paradigm sounds, there are those who insist that not only is this view wrong and arrogantly expressed, but that it represents a falsely all-encompassing and therefore unsupportable metaphysical position about the nature of reality. They refer to this Knowledge Paradigm as 'scientism.'

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http://www.blacksunjournal.com/science/847_atheist-metaphysics-and-religious-equivocation_2007.html

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