| − | |quote=}}</ref> C.S. Lewis stated that the era when people managed to distinguish the difference between what was proved and what was not, a then they truly believed the first, has finished several centuries ago.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Screwtape Letters |author=C.S. Lewis |year=1942, 2013 |publisher=HarperCollins (2013)|isbn=9780062299086 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aSj_-mgwWbYC&dq=The+Screwtape+Letters&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=jjrYUsnOJ4Kl4ATe14H4DA&redir_esc=y}}</ref> | + | |quote=}}</ref> C.S. Lewis stated that the era when people managed to distinguish the difference between what was proved and what was not, and then they truly believed the first, has finished several centuries ago.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Screwtape Letters |author=C.S. Lewis |year=1942, 2013 |publisher=HarperCollins (2013)|isbn=9780062299086 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aSj_-mgwWbYC&dq=The+Screwtape+Letters&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=jjrYUsnOJ4Kl4ATe14H4DA&redir_esc=y}}</ref> |
| − | *In the postmodern science, the traditional [[scientific method]] demanding from scientists to provide the [[scientific evidence]] for their [[hypothesis]] and conduct [[experiment]]s was replaced by [[logic of possibility]] leading to extensive usage of [[doubletalk]] mixing the true or logically coherent information with unsubstantiated hypothetical speculations and [[logical fallacies]] such as [[Non sequitur]] thus making the resulting assertions exceedingly obscure and tedious. This [[paradigm]] shift in [[science]] can be demonstrated at a representative example, the description of research by [[Alan Guth]], where a claim is made about tests being performed in a '' 'hypothetical laboratory' '':<ref>{{cite web|title=Faculty Directory: Alan Guth, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics|accessdate=03.03.2013|url=http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/guth_alan.html|quote=}}</ref> <blockquote>''"Working with Prof. Edward Farhi and others, Guth has explored the question of whether it is in principle possible to ignite inflation in a hypothetical laboratory, thereby creating a new universe. The answer is a definite maybe. They showed that it cannot be done classically, but with quantum tunneling it might be theoretically possible.{{#tag:ref|cf."Physical scientists like [[Newton]] are not content to say that it ''may'' be so, and then build up theories based on bare possibilites."<ref>{{cite book |title=Darwin and his critics: the reception of Darwin's theory of evolution by the scientific community|author=David L. Hull|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1973|pages=275|url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=jkUzUb-xK4Ol4gS27IGYAQ&id=juTaAAAAMAAJ&dq=Hull+Darwin+and+his+critics&q=verb#search_anchor}}</ref>|group=note}} The new universe, if it can be created, would not endanger our own universe. Instead it would slip through a [[wormhole]] and rapidly disconnect completely."</blockquote>'' Postmodern science does not lead to resolution of scientific questions but leaves them undecided by applying terms like '' 'a definite maybe' ''{{#tag:ref|cf."If one wishes to obtain a definite answer from Nature one must attack the question from a more general and less selfish point of view." [[Max Planck]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics|author=Alfred Korzybski|publisher=Institute of General Semantics|year=1995|pages=415|isbn=978-0937298015|url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Sanity-Introduction-Non-Aristotelian-Semantics/dp/0937298018}}</ref>|group=note}}. Consequently, the scientific discoveries are being replaced by the beliefs affected by worldview of scientist which are then effectively promulgated as [[Creed|statements of faith]] or scientific [[myth]] calling for public acceptance. The journal Science published in 2002 an article in which Charles Darwin is criticised for gamely nailing together a ''just-so story'' of how creation of complex organs might have happened.<ref>{{cite web |title=Placentas May Nourish Complexity Studies|author=Virginia Morell|publisher=Science Magazine|date=01-Nov-2002|accessdate=17-Mar-2013|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/content/298/5595/945.1.summary?sid=c4eced8d-4cde-4a65-89ee-67fe22a16f66|quote=It's one of the oldest riddles in evolutionary biology: How does natural selection gradually create an eye, or any complex organ for that matter? The puzzle troubled Charles Darwin, who nevertheless gamely nailed together just-so story of how it might have happened...}}</ref> | + | *In the postmodern science, the traditional [[scientific method]] demanding from scientists to provide the [[scientific evidence]] for their [[hypothesis]] and conduct [[experiment]]s was replaced by [[logic of possibility]] leading to extensive usage of [[doubletalk]] mixing the true or logically coherent information with unsubstantiated hypothetical speculations and [[logical fallacies]] such as [[Non sequitur]] thus making the resulting assertions exceedingly obscure and tedious. This [[paradigm]] shift in [[science]] can be demonstrated at a representative example, the description of research by [[Alan Guth]], where a claim is made about tests being performed in a '' 'hypothetical laboratory' '':<ref>{{cite web|title=Faculty Directory: Alan Guth, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics|accessdate=03.03.2013|url=http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/guth_alan.html|quote=}}</ref> <blockquote>''"Working with Prof. Edward Farhi and others, Guth has explored the question of whether it is in principle possible to ignite inflation in a hypothetical laboratory, thereby creating a new universe. The answer is a '''definite maybe'''. They showed that it cannot be done classically, but with quantum tunneling it might be theoretically possible.{{#tag:ref|cf."Physical scientists like [[Newton]] are not content to say that it ''may'' be so, and then build up theories based on bare possibilities."<ref>{{cite book |title=Darwin and his critics: the reception of Darwin's theory of evolution by the scientific community|author=David L. Hull|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1973|pages=275|url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=jkUzUb-xK4Ol4gS27IGYAQ&id=juTaAAAAMAAJ&dq=Hull+Darwin+and+his+critics&q=verb#search_anchor}}</ref>|group=note}} The new universe, if it can be created, would not endanger our own universe. Instead it would slip through a [[wormhole]] and rapidly disconnect completely."</blockquote>'' Postmodern science does not lead to resolution of scientific questions but leaves them undecided by applying terms like '' 'a definite maybe' ''{{#tag:ref|cf.: |
| | + | *Chapter 9. '''Definitely Maybe''' – the Philosophy of [[David Hume]] in Truth Wars: Talking about Tolerance<ref>{{cite book |title=Truth Wars: Talking about Tolerance |editor=Tony Watkins |publisher=Authentic Media |year=2006 |chapter=9. Definitely Maybe – the Philosophy of David Hume |author=Peter S. Williams |pages=103 |isbn=978-19047-53124|url=https://books.google.sk/books?id=r7PsPQAACAAJ}}</ref>|group=note}}. Consequently, the scientific discoveries are being replaced by the beliefs affected by worldview of scientist which are then effectively promulgated as [[Creed|statements of faith]] or scientific [[myth]] calling for public acceptance. The journal Science published in 2002 an article in which Charles Darwin is criticised for gamely nailing together a ''just-so story'' of how creation of complex organs might have happened.<ref>{{cite web |title=Placentas May Nourish Complexity Studies|author=Virginia Morell|publisher=Science Magazine|date=01-Nov-2002|accessdate=17-Mar-2013|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/content/298/5595/945.1.summary?sid=c4eced8d-4cde-4a65-89ee-67fe22a16f66|quote=It's one of the oldest riddles in evolutionary biology: How does natural selection gradually create an eye, or any complex organ for that matter? The puzzle troubled Charles Darwin, who nevertheless gamely nailed together just-so story of how it might have happened...}}</ref> |
| | *Another example demonstrating the traits of Postmodern science can be given from interview with Joseph Silk, Savilian Professor of [[Astronomy]] at [[University of Oxford]]:<ref name="ESA">{{cite web | | *Another example demonstrating the traits of Postmodern science can be given from interview with Joseph Silk, Savilian Professor of [[Astronomy]] at [[University of Oxford]]:<ref name="ESA">{{cite web |