Thanks BB :o) Excellent F. Bacon quote btw. I have never run across it before, but I find him spot-on. It seems more and more “science” these days is based on opinions that are agreeable to those who place their faith in materialist/Evo-religion. What really blows my mind is that the Evos can’t see it. The actually believe their opinions are the same thing as settled science.
And yet many of them argue as if a favorite theory is set in stone.
As Karl Popper suggests the best scientific theories are not the generalizations with massive explanatory power but rather the ones with the highest information content, the greatest specificity and thereby, which can be falsified.
Frankly, the surest things we can say describing the physical world are mathematical, i.e. because of math "proofs." Beyond that, science is theory upon theory - subject to falling like a house of cards.
Sigh. Evidently not, GGG!
The irony is Francis Bacon, in writing of his Four Idols of the mind, was attempting to break the "choke-hold" of classical philosophy and religion on human knowledge so as to clear the decks for a new (i.e., inductive) approach to the conduct of science. Yet evidently he was right about the "universality" of the innate human tendency described in my last. It comes back to haunt scientists in our own time.
But few notice it — likely because of its "faithlike" nature. Few people bother to analyze their fundamental beliefs.
I'm so glad you liked the excerpt from Bacon. I'm finding him a marvelous read!
Thank you so much for writing, GGG!