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Philosophy of Science, by Roger Jones (1022 words) |
 | The shift in the western mind from the medieval to the modern was underpinned by the growth of science. |
| Science progresses when a theory is shown to be wrong and a new theory is introduced which better explains the phenomena. |
| At the boundaries of science new paradigms are emerging to challenge the current orthodoxy, it is an open question as to how the science of the next century will develop. |
| What is Science? (2775 words) |
| Science, in contrast, is the attempt to reach demonstrable, replicable, conclusions about the natural world (and social science is the corresponding attempt to reach demonstrable conclusions about the social or human world). |
| Science and religion are very different, both in what they try to do and in the approaches they use to accomplish their goals. |
| Science and religion thus are not, or should not be, competing approaches, because they seek to accomplish different things, and by different methods. |
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