[js1138]

You mean like when bleeding patients was abandoned? Or do you mean like when the notion of the ether was abandoned? Or do you mean when Peking Man was abandoned? Or do you mean when fixed continents were abandoned in favor of continental drift?

You have just demonstrated the great strength of science as an intellectual system. All these examples and tens of thousands more are demonstrations of the strength of science as an intellectual system.

[donh]

You have just demonstrated the great strength of science as an intellectual system. All these examples and tens of thousands more are demonstrations of the strength of science as an intellectual system.

Indeed, however, what they are NOT a demonstration of, is that that strengh is in any way related to the notion that we can reliably avail ourselves of proof in science.