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Originally Posted by paulgiamatti
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Very true, but as cosmologist Lawrence Krauss often points out, "why" generally implies a purpose where there probably isn't one. When intellectually honest people ask "why" something is, or "why" something isn't, Krauss asserts that what they're really asking is "how". I tend to agree with him.
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No. When you ask why the something is beautiful that's not even close to a how question. You can't boil life down to questions of how. You have to include legitimate questions of why certain things are the way they are.
The assertion Krauss makes actually brings the scientific process to a halt. If you are left merely explaining how things work without allowing the question of why they work, then that takes an essential element of discovery out of the equation and makes science more of a perfunctory exercise than anything. Every major discovery man has made ever made through science has started with the question of why something happens.