Science

An interesting discussion occurred this week touching on many related topics, but at it's core, the questions boiled down to "what is science?"

Science, according to Webster's, is: knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through the scientific method and concerned with the physical world and its phenomena.

From Wikipedia I confirmed that; essential to the idea of "science" is the formation of hypotheses, theories, and laws.

I believe the confusion begins when natural science and social science are taught in conjunction with one another. Attempts to incorporate social science into natural science is only asking for trouble.

To what degree is the current body of scientific knowledge can be taken as an indicator of what is actually true? Has science become it's own theology?

How difficult it must be to be a scientist with a Christian world-view. Assuming their world-view is not compartmentalized into various areas, but they view the entire world with their Christian world-view...