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To: kosciusko51

I don’t agree.

Science is not based on faith but on putting up a thesis without any faith, knowing it may be wrong. It’s only based on observation and logical links to other observations and the point is not to regard it as truth for all time but a temporary base of work until obeservations are made that make your thesis obsolete or incomplete or wrong.

In fact faith is a problematic attitude for a scientist since they are certainly tempted and do fall in love with their theories all the time - but the philosophie is - and that is what every scientist gets tought and what every priest is forbidden: To not fall into love with theories, models, interpretations etc. but to test them, make your own and put them to a discussion.

It is the essence of science to be unfaithful.


36 posted on 04/14/2010 2:28:06 AM PDT by Rummenigge (there are people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
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To: Rummenigge
The problem with your statement is not science, it is scientists. We have seen over and over again in the scientific community a certain penchant for holding on to theories, even when shown to be false, because there is a certain desire for them to be true. AGW has shown this in bold stripes.

The problem is that every scientist does fall in love with their own theories or models. For instance, is the speed of light constant? There is some good evidence that it is not, but there a strong resistance from the physics community not to accept the theory. Einstein refused to believe quantum mechanics because, as he put it, "God does not play dice." (and, no, I am not saying that Einstein believed in God, I am just quoting him).

Also, I have yet to see a controlled experiment that conclusively proves ToE over ID. What I see is the equivalent of forensic scientists looking over a crime scene trying to figure out what has happened, but who have been told that the perpetrator is not their man, and that they should abandon any line of inquiry that proves otherwise.

40 posted on 04/14/2010 6:09:46 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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