JustAsking
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David,I was replying of one of your posts that you say that you are interested in how faith and science truths can be combined. 2 basics types of truths exists : absolutes truths ( the ones that science are trying to find and study , the nature of the phenomena that are around us and relative truths ( those type of truths emotionally , symbolically . allegorically , religiously , anecdotally etc )
Science is TRYING TO FIND ABSOLUTES truths but that is very hard because all science studies can't be done without some biases. Truths that are based on faith are really relative truths , not matter how hard some religions claim that their truths are absolute. Science and religion are really different of the method to finding truths . Science is based on investigation or research to find a " truth" and the "truths " of religion are based on "divine " revelations.
This is a very interesting comment, my friend. I agree with almost everything you said. Science is based on discovered truths, and religion is based on revealed truth. Also you are correct that there are no theory-neutral observations in science, so science cannot claim it is based on direct observations. However, the verifiability and the predictive power of scientific theories allow us mitigate the effects of bias and evaluate their effectiveness.
The one thing I must disagree with is your claim that science is looking for absolute truth. Science has no way of knowing if it is finding absolute truth or not. And the fact that all scientific theories are ultimately replaced by very different ones implies that science is probably not finding absolute truths.