... and recognises before it can speak"1. These senses are separated into categories of sight, taste, sound, smell and touch and each of them gives us different information from which we can conclude a general idea of reality. But appearance can be different to reality. Sometimes the perception of our senses gets distorted in some way leading to things appearing to be something they are not. We are then left with an illusion seeming to be the reality. This often then contradicts with the beliefs of different areas of knowledge such as science, as our senses sometimes give us a different knowledge to what the rules and facts of science do. Our senses therefore are misleading us. Science deals with an empirical knowledge that is about the Universe, which we acquire by examining how it appears to our senses. Taking the example of looking at a star, our brain interprets the ...

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