God Arises
The Method of Argument
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by the most sophisticated devices, can never be
assumed to be absolutely perfect. All interpretations
based on human observation are, therefore, relative,
and may change with an improvement in the
technique of observation. J.W.N. Sullivan points out
in his book,
The Limitations of Science,
that:
It is evident, even from this brief survey of
scientific ideas, that a true scientific theory
merely means a successful working
hypothesis. It is highly probable that all
scientific theories are wrong. Those that we
accept are verifiable within our present limits
of observation. Truth, then, in science, is a
pragmatic affair (p.158).
This notwithstanding, a scientist regards a
hypothesis
which
provides
a
reasonable
explanation for his observed facts as being in no
way inferior to other academic facts based on
observation. His contention is that his hypothesis is
as much a matter of science as observed facts are.
This, ultimately, is tantamount to a belief in the
unseen. Belief in the unseen is not qualitatively
different, as an intellectual activity, from belief in
