Reply #142: As I said, ~FORMAL -> RELIGION [View All]

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However, Science is a formal system. You can change what is known through science, but you cannot change science itself.

Axioms:

1).- The Universe can be understood through observation.
2).- Cause precedes effect.
3).- The Universe behaves in repeatable, predictable patterns.
4).- patterns of behavior of the universe can be described through organizing principles.
5).- These organizing principles must be testable. They are tentative and subject to falsification through observation.
6).- That which is not falsifiable lies outside the scope of science.

Gödel's theorem is indeed about truths that can be expressed, but cannot be proved. It states that what is provable is only a subset of what it true. And since science deals only with what is provable. Then there are truths that lie beyond the grasp of science by definition.