Originally Posted by
Petros Agapetos
No I wouldn't say the source of all knowledge, but ultimately knowledge must be indicated in evidence. Science is a method and an enterprise that specializes at progressively converging to an underlying truth. Science is a method of discovering the nature of nature itself using empirical evidence and experimentation. Science is based on methodological naturalism, which states that only natural causes are to be considered as explanations, in contradistinction to philosophical naturalism which asserts that only natural things exist (and that the supernatural does not exist). Since there is no way to demonstrate and confirm supernatural causation, entities which are said to inhabit the supernatural realm are simply not considered in science. The means by which science is executed is known as the scientific method.
Science has proven to be the only consistently reliable method of defining reality. Science, by definition, cannot consider supernatural explanations as they are simply unverifiable assertions. Supernatural explanations have yet to provide any reliable, verifiable information about reality, and hence remain a matter of faith. If a supernatural claim does contain scientifically testable assertions, then those assertions may be tested to see if they hold up in nature.
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