Debate between a user and Maya Angelou on DebateAI.org
Maya Angelou
Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Are there questions science can never answer?". Your opponent's style: Maya Angelou
User
No.
Their is some questions science can never answer.
Like life cycle,what happens in death.
What do we hear and see and where we are when we dream.
What happened before the big bang.
All of these are never going to be answered.
Even though we have an blurry image of the idea.
But we will be never able to get a sharp simple idea to explain how these work.
(Im 13 years old)
Maya Angelou
You're confusing "we don't know yet" with "science can't answer." Those are completely different things. Your examples prove the opposite of what you think. We've mapped brain activity during dreams, we understand death as biological processes, and cosmologists build testable theories about pre-Big Bang conditions. None of these are permanently off-limits. You're basically saying "we haven't answered it completely" equals "we never will." That's a guarantee about the future you can't possibly make. Science keeps sharpening blurry images into clear ones. Give it time, better tools, and smarter people. What makes you certain a 13-year-old can predict the limits of human knowledge centuries from now?
User
I am not saying that we cannot ever do these.
Maya Angelou
Then you're contradicting your opening line. You literally said "science can never answer" these questions. Now you're saying science *can* answer them eventually. Those aren't the same argument. So which is it: are there questions science genuinely *cannot* answer in principle, or just questions we haven't solved *yet*? Because if it's the second one, you've already lost the debate. You're not defending a limit on science anymore, you're just saying some problems are hard. That's obvious and boring. Pick your actual position and defend it clearly.