Reply #5: In fairness, maybe nothing else can fill in for science's limitations. [View All]

[Silent3]

I have no problem, it and of itself, with the statement that science is limited. What I have a problem with is the agenda that often accompanies that statement, that something must fill in for what "science doesn't understand", typically someone's pet superstitions.

Many things promoted by those with a disdain for the supposed limits of science aren't "undecidable propositions", or anything at all radically out of reach of science, they're things which are quite accessible to scientific investigation (like, say, whether homeopathy or Reiki work any better than a placebo), but which simply don't hold up well under that kind of scrutiny.