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Climbing For Christ Australia 9-May-2010 At 10:09:57 PM Hendo

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On 9/05/2010 GravityHound wrote:
>care to elaborate. i googled and the first para of scientific methods
>in wikipedia seemed to be a pretty accurate description of what I (a perhaps
>naive scientist) would consider guidelines to demarcate science from non-science.

Maybe this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_problem

I'm no expert but as I understand it basically the problem is that no one has been able to define a set of criteria that

1) Seem philosophically ok; it seems like science and is like what we want science to be
2) Fits with history; the way people have been practicing science
3) Includes all of what is considered science, so that sections of what are currently considered science do not have to be relegated to non-science
4) Does not include things considered non-science.
5) maybe some other points I have forgotten.

On 9/05/2010 patto wrote:
>What would surprise me though is if you were a physicist

SURPRISE! Hehe.

>Trump card!? More like a cheating ace up their sleave! If scientists
>too this attitude towards explaining the world around us then we'd be stuck
>in the dark ages. Resorting to ideas of magic is the anti-science.

Pretty much agreed.

On 9/05/2010 stugang wrote:
>Hendo - until you came along a troll has never irritated me. If however
>you are not a troll I can honestly say I find you irritating.

Sorry, just some topics on here I find interesting recently. I’m not trying to get people worked up, just discussing, see what people think etc, sometimes it is necessary to take a differing opinion to do so. Also I’ve had flu so been sitting around not doing much.