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by AlotOfReading 1770 days ago
If your personal definition of sciences doesn't include evolutionary biology, geology, or large parts of astronomy, it's a very unusual definition. All I can tell you is that most people would disagree.
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That's ok with me. I think it's very important to distinguish between the two endeavors and ideally have different names for them so we don't get led into these kinds of otherwise unnecessary discussions. The domains you mention seem (to me) generally worthwhile. But it's very hard to articulate exactly why they seem that way given we can't reproduce them which makes their results hard to justify believing in.