[stripes1776]

You didn't see that I was agreeing with you.

Sorry, I didn't see that you were agreeing with me. But more importantly you are agreeing with a long tradition that defines how scientific reasoning works.

[aruanan]

Sorry, I didn't see that you were agreeing with me. But more importantly you are agreeing with a long tradition that defines how scientific reasoning works.

Not all science is experimental. If science were limited to experimentation, there would be no geology, meteorology, or astronomy, to mention a few. Hypotheses can be formed and evidence gathered from observation to support them, but the observations have to have priority over theory. This has been the problem with astronomy since Hubble. An idea (redshift as exclusively the product of recessional velocity) gained ascendency and now shoehorns observations (such as quasars as ejecta from certain types of galaxies) to fit the theory or ignores them entirely.