{"id":41969,"date":"2017-05-07T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T19:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=41969"},"modified":"2017-05-07T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T19:22:59","slug":"10-things-science-cannot-prove-blind-spots-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/05\/10-things-science-cannot-prove-blind-spots-science.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;10 Things Science Cannot Prove: The Blind Spots of Science&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41970\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Medical_Laboratory_Scientist_US_NIH.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41970\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41970\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Medical_Laboratory_Scientist_US_NIH.jpg\" alt=\"Is Rembrandt a greater artist than Vermeer?  Let's count the atoms!\" width=\"596\" height=\"396\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This scientist \u2014 note his white coat, which confers unquestionable authority on him \u2014 is either weighing the literary quality of Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cKing Lear\u201d or using spectral analysis to determine right and wrong in moral quandary. Are you hung up on an ethical question? Just ask a scientist to count it for you!<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.logicallyfaithful.com\/10-things-science-cannot-do\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A short little essay<\/a> that risks causing apoplexy in my scientistic readers:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.logicallyfaithful.com\/10-things-science-cannot-do\/<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To them, there is nothing that can be done that science cannot do. \u00a0If science can\u2019t do it, it doesn\u2019t exist. \u00a0It\u2019s \u201cwoo woo\u201d nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Which is, itself, woo woo nonsense. \u00a0And pretty transparently so.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Jericho, Palestine<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 A short little essay that risks causing apoplexy in my scientistic readers: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.logicallyfaithful.com\/10-things-science-cannot-do\/ \u00a0 To them, there is nothing that can be done that science cannot do. \u00a0If science can\u2019t do it, it doesn\u2019t exist. \u00a0It\u2019s \u201cwoo woo\u201d nonsense. \u00a0 Which is, itself, woo woo nonsense. \u00a0And pretty transparently so. \u00a0 Posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;10 Things Science Cannot Prove: The Blind Spots of Science&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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