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==Defining science==

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/science |quote= knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method '''. . .''' such knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena |publisher=Merriam-Webster |title=Online dictionary |accessdate=2009-05-22}}</ref>{{sfn|Popper|2002|p=3}}<ref>{{Cite book | last = Wilson | first = Edward | title = Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge | publisher = Vintage | ___location = New York | year = 1999 | isbn = 0-679-76867-X }}</ref><ref>[[Ludwik Fleck]] (1935), [https://books.google.com/books?id=0KAGUpaUaGYC&printsec=frontcover&dqq=Ludwik+Fleck&source=bl&ots=LcJSSRN_ym&sig=TKrx9GLwFYRGlgIprAcdPFnhJIE&hl=en&ei=rbCWTPGpD8Oblgfmw9iiCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact''] reminds us that before a specific fact 'existed', it had to be created as part of a social agreement within a community.</ref> The boundaries between what is and what is not to be considered science, known as the [[demarcation problem]], continues to be debated among [[philosophers of science]] and [[scientists]] in various fields.<ref>Cover, J.A., Curd, Martin (Eds, 1998) ''Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues'', 1–82.</ref>

The [[United States National Academy of Sciences|U.S. National Academy of Sciences]] has stated that "creationism, intelligent design, and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life or of species are not science because they are not testable by the [[scientific method|methods of science]]."<ref>