Many non-Christians, and all too many Christians, are of the opinion that science, (i.e., the physical or natural sciences) is an ever-growing body of truth about the universe. The progress of science, its technological triumphs, so we are told, demonstrate its truth. Science is seemingly unassailable. After all, it works doesn’t it? And isn’t success the measure of truth?
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John Robbins has pointed out that there are at least five logical difficulties with science, i.e., five reasons why science can never give us truth:
(1) Observation is unreliable.
(2) All scientific experiments commit the fallacy of asserting the consequent.
(3) Science commits the fallacy of induction.
(4) Equations are always selected, they are never discovered.
(5) All scientific laws describe ideal situations.