RE: Signs of Scientism

My comments were based on unadulterated science. If additional hypotheses are included, then all sorts of conclusions can be derived from the data.
 
Moorad

From: Keith Miller
Sent: Mon 1/16/2006 11:10 PM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: Signs of Scientism

> I beg you to tell me how physicists characterize the elementary
> particles they constantly talk about. Are they fools when they claim
> that their (physical) detectors have detected a photon, an electron,
> etc.

I'm not sure what you are getting at. Of course our claims about the
nature of physical objects and forces are legitimately based on our
observations (direct or through instruments) of physical objects and
events. But, I would also contend that those physical descriptions are
not complete in the ultimate sense. Science does not, and cannot,
capture the divine upholding of these events. I would argue from a
biblical perspective that there are NO purely physical phenomena.

Keith

Keith B. Miller
Research Assistant Professor
Dept of Geology, Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-3201
785-532-2250
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kbmill/
Received on Tue Jan 17 09:02:54 2006