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Lausten replied to the topic Evolution of Religion in the forum Religion and Secularism 5 years, 3 months ago
Can you explain to me in detail why the scientific method is the only sure way to acquire knowledge?
Steven Pinker recently wrote an article for Skeptic.com. It starts by pointing out that you can’t question reason. If you are questioning if reason works, then you are using reason. If you say reason doesn’t work, you have reasons for why you think that. You can question if we exist and if we can evaluate our own knowledge, those questions are purely philosophical. People in the future might be able to look back and explain how we were irrational, or a more intelligent alien species could say it, but we can’t say it about ourselves now.
No, it’s not infallible, because we are fallible. Science is how we deal with who we are when figuring out what we don’t know.



