Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Banyai AT t-online.de (Michael Banyai)]

Dear Karl Randolph,

discussing with my father, who is now a retired professor for Physics at the 
Goethe University of Frankfurt, we convened that history is no science or at 
least nothing to which applies the definition of science stricto sensu.

Making verifyable predictions in science allways involves the future and not 
the past tense. Predictions about the past are no predictions stricto sensu, 
or if you wish to call them predictions you need a new definition of the word.

In fact this discussion doesn´t seem to make any sense for somebody involved 
in history. He is probably working in a discipline in which only partially 
the exigence of scientifical working applies. 

In the end, does it seem to me, that such a discussion is of little interest 
for the discipline.

Best regards,

Bányai Michael
Stuttgart