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Ali, Tazid
- How Certain is Science?
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1 Department of Mathematics, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh 786 004, IN
1 Department of Mathematics, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh 786 004, IN
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Current Science, Vol 111, No 10 (2016), Pagination: 1587-1588Abstract
What is truth? What is reality? How certain are we regarding any given fact? These are questions pondered upon by philosophers from time immemorial. This search for the nature of knowledge has culminated in different epistemic theories of truth. In this note I delve into this aspect in the field of science. Many people outside the field of science often confuse it with certainty. They think that what science says is infallible; its predictions are 100% accurate/reliable. This is perhaps due to the high precision and accuracy with which science predicts different future events like eclipses, time of sunrise and sunset, launching of spacecraft and rockets, etc. However, a close scrutiny will reveal that in the midst of these predictions there are errors and uncertainties involved.Full Text
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1 Department o f Mathematics, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh 786 004, IN
1 Department o f Mathematics, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh 786 004, IN
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Current Science, Vol 115, No 8 (2018), Pagination: 1448-1450Abstract
The origin of the notion of God and religious beliefs can be attributed to the attempt of the primitive people to come in terms with the hostile environment they were exposed to. They could not comprehend and were awed at the different physical phenomena like alteration of day and night, lightning, thunder, flood, storm, eclipses, death, etc. They soon realized their helplessness and defencelessness against the forces of nature. They hypothesized that there must be some supreme power or deity/deities that controls all these happenings. They thought these deities need to be pleased to avoid incurring their wrath. So they imagined these deities in different forms, depending on the nature of the force they represent, and started worshiping them. Thus submission/surrender to the hypothesized Supreme Being is the foundation of all religions. With the progress of time and growth of knowledge our view of the universe has changed drastically, but fear of the unknown and search for reality continues. Sages and philosophers contemplated on this issue and thus there emerged the notion of divinely inspired or revealed knowledge resulting in what are called ‘dharma sashtras’ or religious scriptures.Full Text
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- Ali, T., Curr. Sci., 2016, 111(10), 15871588.
- Hawking, S. and Mlodinow, L., The Grand Design, Bantam Press, Great Britain, 2010.