Science is Limited:
Questions about ethics, the existence of God, and the possibility of an after life are not within the realm of science. Despite their importance, they cannot be expressed in the form of falsifiable hypotheses (What is Science? page 7). Science is not capable of answering questions about the supernatural world, although they may try to explain the probability of such things occurring, science is limited to the natural world.
Science is not capable of answering questions about value. For example, science cannot tell us which color is prettier or which rotten food smells worse. Science is able to tell us which colored is preferred from experimentation and case studies but that will not be enough to answer questions of value. Researchers often develop experiments to answer these types of questions and those who do not think critically about the data may assume that science is capable to answering value questions. We must remember that experiments can only tell us exactly what the experiment was designed to explain and further assumptions should be considered as such, merely assumptions. For instance, say a poll of thirty Ambrose students was taken. They were to choose whether they preferred white or black, ten chose white and twenty chose black. This survey can tell us nothing about which color is "better" or "prettier", all it is capable of doing is telling us that twenty out of the thirty Ambrose students that were surveyed preferred the color black over white.
Science is also not capable of answering questions about morality; what is good or bad and what is right or wrong. When moral questions such as abortion or the death penalty arise, science can do nothing to solve the problem besides give raw facts and data about what is physically happening. For example, a scientist can tell us what is happening at different stages of the fetal development such as when the heart begins to beat, but it cannot tell us whether or not aborting the fetus is the right or wrong thing to do.
Science is not capable of answering questions about value. For example, science cannot tell us which color is prettier or which rotten food smells worse. Science is able to tell us which colored is preferred from experimentation and case studies but that will not be enough to answer questions of value. Researchers often develop experiments to answer these types of questions and those who do not think critically about the data may assume that science is capable to answering value questions. We must remember that experiments can only tell us exactly what the experiment was designed to explain and further assumptions should be considered as such, merely assumptions. For instance, say a poll of thirty Ambrose students was taken. They were to choose whether they preferred white or black, ten chose white and twenty chose black. This survey can tell us nothing about which color is "better" or "prettier", all it is capable of doing is telling us that twenty out of the thirty Ambrose students that were surveyed preferred the color black over white.
Science is also not capable of answering questions about morality; what is good or bad and what is right or wrong. When moral questions such as abortion or the death penalty arise, science can do nothing to solve the problem besides give raw facts and data about what is physically happening. For example, a scientist can tell us what is happening at different stages of the fetal development such as when the heart begins to beat, but it cannot tell us whether or not aborting the fetus is the right or wrong thing to do.