Overview of the Structure of a Scientific Worldview

Abstract. Understanding the structure of a scientific world view is important for the dialogue between science and religion. In this essay, I define comprehensive worldview and distinguish it from the more focused non comprehensive worldview. I explain that scientists and the public at large agree t...

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Main Author: Carvalho, John J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 2006
In: Zygon
Year: 2006, Volume: 41, Issue: 1, Pages: 113-124
Further subjects:B Critical Realism
B Science and religion
B methods of science
B contingent truth
B Philosophy and theology
B theological worldview
B presuppositions of science
B hypothetico-deductive method
B comprehensive worldviews
B inductivism
B justification in science
B SCIENTIFIC WORLDVIEW
B noncomprehensive worldviews
B statistical-relevance method
B Evolutionary Biology
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Summary:Abstract. Understanding the structure of a scientific world view is important for the dialogue between science and religion. In this essay, I define comprehensive worldview and distinguish it from the more focused non comprehensive worldview. I explain that scientists and the public at large agree that modern research works in a scientific as opposed to nonscientific worldview. I give some of the essential elements of any scientific worldview that differentiate it from nonscientific ones. These elements are the general pre suppositions of science, the methods of science, and the articles of justification for the conclusions science puts forward. I question whether a scientific worldview can allow philosophical and theological tenets, which might appear to stand opposed to scientific paradigms, and conclude that the answer lies in the scope of its comprehensiveness.
ISSN:1467-9744
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Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2006.00729.x