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To: neverdem

“Science is this wonderfully self-correcting enterprise,”

Translation: Science is always guessing


4 posted on 11/29/2012 3:38:24 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin
Guess, test, see if the guess was correct, if not, rinse and repeat.

That's what science is.

Men trying to understand the beauty of God's creation. We see through a glass, darkly.

/johnny

11 posted on 11/29/2012 4:06:37 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: BenLurkin
Translation: Science is always guessing

Yes, except for Bad Science where they accept "consensus."

Keep banging the rocks together, boys.

15 posted on 11/29/2012 4:51:08 PM PST by Aevery_Freeman (The trouble with the "masses" is that they never achieve the "m")
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To: BenLurkin
Translation: Science is always guessing

Especially these days - the biggest difference between scientists and philosophers these days is that most scientists can do math.

30 posted on 11/30/2012 3:55:36 AM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
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