An argument for God

[a completely inoffensive name]

"Physics isn't called Philosophy, either, because it's just a branch of it." Can you explain how Physic is a branch of Philosophy?

Physics depends on philosophical underpinnings in order to even begin the scientific method. When applying the scientific method, think about whether:

A. This information will manifest itself through experiments, in other words, that the information we seek is indeed observable.
B. This information is in fact universal and applies everywhere.
C. That repeated observation alone is justifiable in asserting scientific truth.
D. That the model you obtain is indeed the truth of the matter or simply a model that describes the situation (an important distinction).

There are many other questions related to science that are philosophical in nature. But all the above statements are still in flux and while the day to day physicists do their work and publish their findings and build upon their knowledge, the foundation of what they do is based on philosophical positions that they accept without question, whether they realize it or not.

[Papewaio]

Philosophy like mathematics are part of a physicists toolset.

Mathematics is to Physics what weight lifting is to sports.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I go away for a week and people fight my battles for me... You guys...

Just to finesse the point - "Metaphyiscs" are literally the books that "come before Physics" in Aristotle's corpus. Aristotle called them "First Things" (never "Metaphysics") because he considered the questions they asked to be fundamental to all enquiry, including scientific enquiry.

Today we take out Metaphysics for granted and instead of studying them Scientists skip straight to studying how to apply the Scientific Method.

This is why so many modern Scientists are bad at philosophy.