{"id":18091,"date":"2013-05-26T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=18091"},"modified":"2016-12-15T08:34:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:34:22","slug":"science-built-on-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/26\/science-built-on-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Science built on philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my random atheist encounter last weekend we spent some time talking about faith and science. I spoke about the limits of science (the material world) and the philosophical presuppositions which science must assume to be true:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>1. A world outside our minds must exist<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>2. We must be able to attain true knowledge of this world<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>3. Logic must be operable<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>4. Our sense must give us trustworthy data<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>5. Nature must be orderly and constant<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(I didn&#8217;t make up this list, I read it a while ago on <a href=\"http:\/\/souldevice.wordpress.com\/2006\/10\/06\/science-the-house-that-philosophy-built\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soul Device<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my random atheist encounter last weekend we spent some time talking about faith and science. I spoke about the limits of science (the material world) and the philosophical presuppositions which science must assume to be true: 1. A world outside our minds must exist 2. We must be able to attain true knowledge of this world 3. Logic must<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2620,2969,2172,242,2170,2171],"class_list":["post-18091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-douglas-beaumont","tag-featured","tag-philosphy","tag-science","tag-scientism","tag-soul-device"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18091"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58346,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18091\/revisions\/58346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}