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Science Speaks the Truth and Nothing but the Truth - but Nowhere Near the Whole Truth |
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An audio recording of a lecture given at the Centre for Human Ecology by Dr. Ulrich Loening. The lecture is regarding Science; how modern science has evolved in both thinking and practice, mainly within a reductionist framework and how it often ignores the whole picture. The term ‘Science’ within this lecture is used in the wider meaning to include natural philosophy. The history of how we came to be a scientific civilisation is discussed during the lecture, going through the difficult stages of separating myth from science. Examples are used from agriculture to illustrate how the science we often apply, in practice, is inadequate due to the omission of essential truths. Dr. Loening begins with discussing Galileo and how his scientific observations in the Renaissance period (from 1500 AD) helped to separate reality from dogma; recording regularities helped to discover some of the laws of nature, and designing experiment as the basic method of his new philosophy. This view of the history of science is developed through illustrations using Descartes’, Newton’s and Einstein’s theories. The essential features of this foundation of science are shown in its powers to predict beyond the situation in hand; expanding by generalisation. An example given is of a broken washing machine – if it is taken to be repaired, the laws of electricity or momentum aren’t brought into question, a construction fault is looked for. There are uncertainties in science, but science can state with certainty that such uncertainties are not due to magic; the laws of physics still stand. Dr. Loening moves on to examples in biology, theories developed by Pasteur, Darwin and even the Gaia theory developed by Jim Lovelock. The lecture ends by summing up that scientific experiment in observation rather than intervention is perhaps the more valuable tool, and with hopes for progress in an organic, new regenerated approach to agriculture. This audio recording lasts 54 minutes and 17 seconds.
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Speaker - Loening, Dr. Ulrich
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Agriculture, Environment
Science
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The Centre for Human Ecology - Copyright Holder
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20 / 11 / 2001
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English
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United Kingdom
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Community Media Association has non exclusive rights for the use of the work in The Showcase, but the overall copyright rests with the Centre for Human Ecology. Copyright the Centre for Human Ecology.
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