Are Parts of Human Experience Beyond Scientific Understanding?

[brunoparga]

1. Have you personally had what you believe to be a religious experience?
-> Uncertain

2. Have you personally enhanced your understanding of the physical world through science?
-> Yes

3. Do you think there is a Supreme Being, e.g. God?
-> No

4. Does God intervene in human affairs?
-> Never (follows from my answer to #4)

5. Do you think there is a soul, e.g., that some essential part of an individual survives death or at some future time regains awareness?
-> No

6. Do you think science ultimately can explain all human reality including religious experience?
-> Yes - if there's stuff which is unprovable, then there's something about it we can know - that is it unprovable - and if we can know that, then we most definitely should.

7. Alternatively, do you think that there are parts of reality which are forever beyond scientific understanding?
-> In principle no, although in practice yes - the knowable world is indeed larger than our ability of fully knowing it at any given time.

Note: I'm trying to stick to the strict definition of science cheesehead has posted. What I think is meant in the poll by "spiritual" is something beyond scientific understanding, not only current science but the scientific method itself.

Bruno