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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (24402)	7/8/2006 10:31:51 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

<Causality is the axiom on which science is based. An axiom is not proved, but rather assumed.> Exactly... the realm of philosophy. A scientist would never leave open the possibility for change of an unproven assumption. Causality is the axiom on which science has been based historically, BUT causality is an artifact of observation... which, we know is science REAL 'basis' is of course... from which all anecdotes, hypothesis, theories, come from. As I've said before, the opinion as to what 'causality' means is in flux with the advent of modern physics, Chaotic sytems, etc... This is actually very easy to see since really no 'thing' has any 'cause'... in a sense the evolution of the entire universe "caused" this moment in which I write this. I'm not "causing" you to these words, we need 'you', my computer, wires, the evolution of the internet, language, etc. There is no 'cause' to anyting. There are conditions in which sequences (almost always, usually, sometimes, rarely, almost never, etc.) apppear. The larger (less linear) the context of the sequences, the 'causality' (based on our linear perception) there appears to be. DAK