Does Science Really Deal In Reality?

Okay time to start with explaining the "Big Bang Theory" I have to say finally we are not going to be confusing Evolution with the "Big Bang Theory". Hawking supports the M-theory which is explained on the Science Channel the best but I will link to an article that explains it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcsWJ8NywSk http://science.discovery.com/videos/master-of-the-universe-stephen-hawking-m-theory.html As to answer the question yes science has always dealt in reality because the scientific method requires it to. Darwin based his theory on what he saw and said those things look related and well now that Tech has come into it Evolution the theory he started has changed and adapted to the new discoveries as his didn't account for DNA or other forms of evidence as it did prove certain parts true and one being the Law of Natural Selection. As this discussion is covering Physics then I have to mention Newton which has the three laws of Physics. The proof of the "Big Bang Theory" or M-Theory as that is the one I am going to use for the rest of this post. Has proof for a single staring point in which the Universe was created as things are moving away from a central point in space which under the laws of physics. Primarily the first law of Physics which is Objects at rest stay at rest unless acted on by another force. This is also true of objects moving if an object is moving in a frictionless enviorment such as space with no other mass to act upon it. That object would move in the direction of the force in which is acting with it. In this case whole galaxies seem to be moving away from a single point. As for these two theories they don't do anything but prove more that science is always looking for new ideas on how the universe works dealing with what they can observe which is a part of the Scientific Method.

Science does deal in reality,however when mankind does not have all the answers they patch the gap with beliefs.Science has discovered many many great things, however there are lots of patches. Those who search for knowledge slowly lose these patches by way of the facts.Discovery is the path we should all be taking.

True science does deal with reality. True science can be studied and experiments can be performed for research and by this activity we come to understand scientific facts. The examples you are talking about from the debate are not science in that sense. They are ideas, hypothesis, theories and opinions. Origin of the universe and evolution of man are two areas where people pretend that they have science, when they clearly do not. The Bible is very clear about the origin of the universe. Read Genesis 1 - 3. Why is this true? Because it was written by God and he was there!

I believe its all a timeless misunderstanding. Time itself is Greatly Misunderstood, because it seems to go by, day after day on Standard Clock time. But its not like that at all. Time, rather than running horizontally (as we think), runs vertically, and this means that everything that has ever happened, and everything that will ever happen, is all happening right now. Thus, the So Called" Big Bang," is Beginning even as we speak, and ending, all in the same time.

It is not right to say that science is dealing with reality. In fact science is questing after the reality. Science does not know the reality as yet, and for that matter it would never know because by the time it arrives at the reality, new horizons appear and the science begins once again to quest after the new realities.

You're all idiots. God created everything 6000 years ago. The universe was just created to entertain the faithless. That's you. Science is only a clever way for the devil to trick your overactive imaginations. Just read your Bible and it will all make sense. And make sure to pray for the end of days everynight so the world will be destroyed and we can see jesus again.

'Science' dealing with origins (of the universe and, or life) ceases to be science as "science" has to do with "observation".. My personal opinion? If, as I believe, an intelligence created the universe and life in six days by speaking it into existence, that had to be quite a lot of energy, a pretty big bang of activity..

Time is a measurement of change. Every moment we experience is the present. The present only last for a short time before another change occurs. The past is something that already happened. The future is something that hasn't happened yet. We are always in the present. When we see the stars we see it as it was in the past because if you can go there in the present you would notice how different the star looks. Time has no beginning and no end. There was always change and there will always be change. The big bang is as farthest point in time that can be measured so far. There is time before the big bang but it is unknown what occurred before the big bang.

of course science deals with reality mostly. some topics in physics though sounds so f*%ked up that it might as well be junk science.

Science is looking at what's out there, observing the variances, coming up with a hypothesis on how it got there, testing the hypothesis to see if it works or not, and if you get a series of tests that continuously comes out to the same result, then it's a theory. Things like the theory of gravity constantly works, and we can always test it, to see how fast things fall, and how objects rotate around eachother in the universe. We have mounds of proof that it's real, but its still considered a theory, because there may come something that can beat it out which we just haven't thought of, or haven't been able to do testing on. For the beginning of the universe, it's nearly impossible to do full testing on it. You can't fully recreate a universe beginning, and you can't go back in time to see how our universe came about. As of now, there are about 5 main theories, each with their own scientific backing and holes, about how the beginning of the universe happened. The idea that comes up the most, is the big bang, and there is lots and lots of proof pushing towards that... but it's still not complete, so it could still be wrong. In science, you have to be willing to admit that the idea you have could be wrong, and just about anything is possible. What Dawkins means by the fact that science deals with reality, is that to come to the conclusions, we need a hypothesis, then testing, then a conclusion, then a theory, which must be tested again and again. We can't just say, "it was some intelligent creator that made everything" because there is no possible testing, and absolutely no evidence, and it just puts a halt on the science, saying, "we can't know more". As for the beginning of the universe, the Big Bang has a lot of evidence behind it, from the radiation that came out evenly, to how everything is moving away from eachother, to the common trends of the universe, the Big Bang works... but it has holes, like, where did the bang come from? So, science keeps an open mind, and if someone can work out another theory mathematically or with testing, then it will be considered, too, until we get to see what really started off the universe, and be able to test that.

Science really does deal in reality. The fact that Professor Wun-Yi has proposed an explanation at odds of Professor Hawking's doesn't challenge that, but confirms it. People will now examine both theories, how well they explain existing data, and what predictions they make. They will then test those predictions by experiment or further observation of the universe, and the results will either confirm the Hawking Model, the Wun-Yo mode, or neither -- in which people will look for a hypothesis that does an even better job of explaining the data.

Earth Science is just glass of water from the ocean of knowledge. There are several things waiting to be discovered and most of them will never be discovered. What I am trying to point out here, is that human tend to discover the origin of things, but everytime they find an answer for a particular question tend another question or questions will arise. For example, Darwin theorized that human evolve from primates, so where did those primates, came from? and if ever they found an answer for that then another question will be ask. And human will just perish from this planet without knowing the source of it all.

Science is a subject trying to deal with reality.But the universe is changing everytime.As people know the world more and more,we can get the information which gots closer and closer to the reality.However,what is reality,maybe only God knows.