Modern Science And Materialism
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Modern Science And Materialism
What is real? This question has puzzled many what is really real or what is
reality. Reality as I shall explain is one that is according to materialism and
proven by science. Materialism is defined, as the metaphysical view holding that
matter alone is real. This is what Hugh Elliot proves in his argument Modern
Science and Materialism. By use of his argument I will answer the questions of
what is real, what humans need to know, if it is possible to know what is real
and how, how to distinguish real for non-real, where humans fit in, and how we
can benefit from materialism. First, what is real? Reality is only one thing,
and it is all principles of matter and energy. When you reach out and touch
something it is matter, when you look to the skies all around you sense this
reality of matter and energy from the light in the sky to the ground beneath us.
Elliot says that the “universe consists of matter and energy in a state of
permanent change.”(Pg. 307 Modern Science and Materialism, Hugh Elliot) What
Elliot is saying is matter is all objects being discerned, energy consisting of
motion, heat, light, sound, electricity, and etc., and permanent change is real.
This permanent change means that everything when you take a look around our
universe it never stands still relative to the rest of the universe, and even
science has proven this with the second law of thermodynamics it states that all
systems will change spontaneously to less ordered. Now this is a scary thought
that we wouldn’t be able to grasp reality if it always changes on its own.
This raises a serious question, how can we understand or live according to
reality if it always is changing? Well, there is no need to worry about this
fact of change, because we can understand how it works we our not helpless
against nature. The universe will change according to Elliot and science, but
the universe is not a chaotic place. It has procedures or fixed sequences that
is follows it gives us humans’ knowledge about events so certain that we can
predict the future. Elliot also states this he says that the universe “it
follows certain fixed sequences-usually called laws-which are so definite that
even in the present state of knowledge many future events can be prophesied with
certainty.”(Pg. 308 Modern Science and Materialism, Hugh Elliot) Yes, now we
have something to follow according to reality it is these, as Elliot states,
laws. But unlike the laws of the government that are ...
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