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| style="padding:15px;" |«''Facts are reliable, but readers of facts will inevitably and legitimately differ about causal explanations.''»   

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<div style="padding-left:40px;">&mdash; Henry Power<ref name="Rappaport1997">{{cite book |title=When Geologists Where Historians, 1665-1750 |author=Rhoda Rappaport |publisher=Cornell University Press |place=Ithaca and London |year=1997 |pages=62-3 |isbn=978-0801-433863 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=30U3W2kI7foC |quote=}}</ref>  </div>

<div style="padding-left:40px;">&mdash; Henry Power<ref name="Rappaport1997">{{cite book |title=When Geologists Where Historians, 1665-1750 |author=Rhoda Rappaport |publisher=Cornell University Press |place=Ithaca and London |year=1997 |pages=62–3 |isbn=978-0801-433863 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=30U3W2kI7foC |quote=}}</ref>  </div>

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'''Explanation in [[science]]''' is a description of the unknown in terms of the [[knowledge|known]].<ref name="DismantlingBB">{{cite book|author=Alex Williams, John Hartnett|title=Dismantling the Big Bang|publisher=Master Books|location=Green Forest, AR, USA|year=2005|page=128|pages=346|isbn=978-0-89051-437-5|url=http://books.google.no/books?id=FR7basoxkSwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=hartnett+dismantling+the+big+bang&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JvNwT_6nJJOP4gTP6fG_Ag&sqi=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=hartnett%20dismantling%20the%20big%20bang&f=false|quote=}}</ref> When an explanation is so supple that it can explain any behavior, it is difficult to test it [[experimental science|experimentally]], much less use it as a catalyst for [[scientific discovery]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Philip Skell |title=Why Do We Invoke Darwin?|publisher=The Scientist|date=August 29, 2005 |url=http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/16649/title/Why-Do-We-Invoke-Darwin-/|accessdate=June 13, 2013}}</ref> Explanation in science, and anywhere else, if it is to avoid an [[infinite regress]], always lead to certain things that are regarded as [[First cause|ultimate]].<ref name="LENNOX">{{cite book

'''Explanation in [[science]]''' is a description of the unknown in terms of the [[knowledge|known]].<ref name="DismantlingBB">{{cite book|author=Alex Williams, John Hartnett|title=Dismantling the Big Bang|publisher=Master Books|location=Green Forest, AR, USA|year=2005|page=128|pages=346|isbn=978-0-89051-437-5|url=http://books.google.no/books?id=FR7basoxkSwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=hartnett+dismantling+the+big+bang&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JvNwT_6nJJOP4gTP6fG_Ag&sqi=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=hartnett%20dismantling%20the%20big%20bang&f=false|quote=}}</ref> When an explanation is so supple that it can explain any behavior, it is difficult to test it [[experimental science|experimentally]], much less use it as a catalyst for [[scientific discovery]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Philip Skell |title=Why Do We Invoke Darwin?|publisher=The Scientist|date=August 29, 2005 |url=http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/16649/title/Why-Do-We-Invoke-Darwin-/|accessdate=June 13, 2013}}</ref> Explanation in science, and anywhere else, if it is to avoid an [[infinite regress]], always lead to certain things that are regarded as [[First cause|ultimate]].<ref name="LENNOX">{{cite book

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== See Also: ==  

== See also ==

*[[Fog displacement]]

*[[Fog displacement]]

*[[Scientific method]]

*[[Scientific method]]