Oh look, a scientist who doesn't understand the point of science.https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/985201265394106368 …
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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist
“Solve problems”? No. This is neither historically or currently true about science. That definition ignores basic science altogether.
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Replying to @hereandnowness
I could have phrased that better. Science is about coming up with good explanations, and good explanations are used to solve problems. We don't subscribe to a theory because we think it's the "objective truth", but because it has higher explanatory power than another theory.
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In other words, scientific theories aren't a collection of objective truths. They are models that describe how nature works. Models don't have a binary truth value, only increasing or decreasing levels of explanatory power.
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