Dear Og
You stated,"You can ask "do you love this person" and they can answer "yes"... That is what is called a measurement. It could be true or false, but it is still a scientific measurement."
Do I (or anyone) believe in God? Yes, I do! Ok, I have, by your saying, been involved in science. This may or may not be true you say. So then you are saying science cannot prove anything to be right or wrong? (because you stated the answer to do you love someone may or may not be true.) But on the other hand you may be implying that you need more science to prove the survey you took about love, as you cannot prove it is true or not thus making the survey inadequate. Science at a basic level tests and proves things to be true or not. It can reproduce the same experiemtn or test and get the same results making something true and provable. So I am still waiting for this measurement about love you mentioned that can show love in a scientific testable measurement that actually proves love exists and not some survey which you then mention cannot prove whether love is true or not. By the way you can use surveys for science but your example was far too simplistic and these surveys have many criteria and rules to make them scientific. These surveys measure tangible things that are observable and actually measurable.
alexie |