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Is it a fact that science can not prove everything?
Shoshou..Mony:
--- Quote from: MiniLuv on September 04, 2011, 05:20:46 am ---An ostrich egg may resemble a sphere, but it isn't. It's clearly elliptical. Big difference
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Yeah just like the term used for 'sunset' and 'sunrise' by all the English teachers and newspapers is also wrong? Does the sun even move to set or rise? We'd be claiming that everything in English language is elliptical that way. ;)
astarmathsandphysics:
Language was made by people to explain how things appear, not how they are.
MiniLuv:
--- Quote from: Shoshou..Mony on September 04, 2011, 11:49:07 am ---Yeah just like the term used for 'sunset' and 'sunrise' by all the English teachers and newspapers is also wrong? Does the sun even move to set or rise? We'd be claiming that everything in English language is elliptical that way. ;)
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The terms 'sunset' and 'sunrise' are not wrong. There is no point looking at it from a astronomically literal view since it is used as a means to signify the end of day or night from where that person is standing at the time. Therefore, it is appropriate to coin the movement of the sun as 'sunset' and 'sunrise' because it is simply a means of establishing where the position of the sun is from one particular place.
And please re-explain what you mean when you say "that everything in English language is elliptical that way", because your statement made no sense.
Rvel Zahid:
well the history and present progress of scientists suggest that science is revealing the unknown things and the secrets of this universe. the concept of big bang theory, grand unified theory, evolution theory and so many advancements do make a point that due to the tireless hours of working and researches of scientists we are finding the details and remedies to our problems. like the development in the field of medicine, we can counter so many diseases which we couldn't do some decades back. we see a pattern of improvement only, the universe is comprehensible and people are making efforts to better understand it...
astarmathsandphysics:
I keep having nightmare visions of the future cos the birthrates are so low. The point will come when knowledge is forgotten cos there will not be enough people to know all that has been learnt. It will be pointless to say science can prove everything, cos to prove somethingtakes skill - one day all these skills will be lost.
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