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> Science simply hasn't FOUND [...] I personally believe in time we will

Lets call that Scientism. Beliefs about what may be discovered later are just beliefs, something that should be considered anathema to science itself. (Of course these beliefs may or may not come true, and curiosity about them may indeed provide insight that allows their eventual discovery.) But in the meantime unfounded beliefs may indeed hamper further scientific insight and discoveries. Ironic, given the history of science & faith, that science might be stymied by limitations of its own faith.



Meta science is a science.


Faith that science will answer all the questions is not science.


All questions that find an answer will have come through a science by definition of what science is.


> All questions that find an answer will have come through a science by definition of what science is.

No, that's a definition of scientism, which is very much pseudoscience. Your idea is so wrong that is excludes all answers to mathematical questions, which are, in fact, unscientific.


How are mathematical questions unscientific?


> How are mathematical questions unscientific?

Because the essential quality of science is empirically testing hypotheses against physical observations, and math doesn't work like that at all.




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