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DavidMcC wrote:

Hobbes Choice wrote:

tuco wrote:I suppose they are stumped because they ask "the why question":

Richard Feynman. Why.

The up-shot of what he says here, is nothing more than to admit that science is "description" par-excellence. Ultimately there are no explanations, only more and more finer descriptions.
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Not so. There is more to it than description - there is also PREDICTION, without which science is incomplete. If you get to the stage of making a correct prediction that passes the test of experiment, you can be confident that you have some kind of explanation for the phenomenon.