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Tue 19 May, 2015 09:41 pm
Does "Controversies about human values are controversies about which science officially has no opinion" mean "Controversies about human values are controversies about which science officially has no idea/opinion about human values"?
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Most people imagine that science cannot pose, much less answer, questions of this sort. How could we ever say, as a matter of scientific fact, that one way of life is better, or more moral, than another? Whose definition of "better" or "moral" would we use? While many scientists now study the evolution of morality, as well as its underlying neurobiology, the purpose of their research is merely to describe how human beings think and behave. No one expects science to tell us how we ought to think and behave. Controversies about human values are controversies about which science officially has no opinion.