Science is defined as "a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws" (1). ... Situations of the past that took place may be remembered, but nothing, not even the five senses, will make it possible for anyone to replay the event. ... An additional observation to note relating to teeth, Caucasians tend to have smaller teeth and more overcrowding, commonly resulting in impacting third molars that must be removed. ... In conclusion, science should be the basis of truth. However, it only deals with ...

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Mathematicians use inductive reasoning to expand on axioms to form truths. ... On the same note, many might argue that without imagination, it would not be possible to recreate the past. ... Chuck Palahniuk identifies that, like mathematics and its use of patterns, history also utilizes patterns, "there are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns if you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. ... This resembles how Historians attempt to reach reasonable truths through imagination. ... However, despite the rigorous proof used by mathemat...

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Do the "truths" of science necessarily mean the abolition of religious "truths"? When Flew's falsifiability challenge to theism, made in 1955, is directed towards science itself, we find that scientism so rigs the methodology and criteria for truth that the meaning of falsifiability itself is reduced. ... One does not have to accept Barbour's understanding of process thought to agree with his caution about what we say about truth and how we attempt to say it. ... Earlier in this discussion, it was shown how Turner plotted the way many religious thinkers (again, especially within ...

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