In Whom we live and move and have our being.
Poor Englishman. Doesn’t he know?
It is Turtles all the way down...
Settled Science is one of the few absolutes liberals believe in.
It was once settled science that the earth was flat.
It was once settled science that the earth was the center of the universe.
It was once settled science that bleeding sick people with leeches was an effective medical procedure.
Forty years ago it was settled science that the earth was entering a new ice age.
I would like to know the Indian mystic's explanation of what backs the U.S. Dollar.
While it is trite to press on the assumptions of this article, it is clear (to me) that little, if anything, shows failure of the scientific method of (generic) thesis, antithesis, synthesis [theory, disprove, adjust to new theory]. Dark matter / energy is an unknown but is roughly quantified and being actively explored. Anomalous ruins are not being explained away but rather are being explored to adjust current and possibly erroneous assumptions.
Within my lifetime we have had MAJOR upsets in non-political science that have rendered numerous textbooks obsolete. Continental drift, extinction events from space and the origin of our Moon just to name three. The proven record of true science takes given facts, hypothesizes causes and effects and then adjusts to account for new facts as needed.
As the late, great Science Fiction author, Roger Zelazny, once framed as an intellectual compass; "The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable.” ― Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
Thanks for posting...
I’m still skeptical about Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
Galaxies rotate at a different speed than predicted by our theories of gravity. Therefore, 95% of the universe must be invisible, odorless, tasteless, and undetectable, in order to keep our theories inviolate.
The alternative to Dark Matter is MOND, Modified Newtonian Dynamics, which assumes that maybe gravity works a little different than we’ve discovered so far, when it acts over great distances. MOND can explain many of the galactic rotational discrepancies. Dark Matter is equivalent to saying the planets move because angels are pushing them.
Dark Energy is the explanation for discrepancies between the distance to far galaxies, and the Doppler shift toward the red in their spectra, which is interpreted as their speed away from us. Our measurements of such distances are based on a wobbly stack of assumptions. Rather than question the assumptions, it’s much easier to, again, invoke an invisible undetectable Something that explains the observations.
Dick Cheney. Not Rumsfeld. It wasn't original to Cheney either.
Settled science used to include bloodletting, Earth as center of the universe, spunk-water to cure warts, fall-off-the-edge-of-the-flat Earth, witchcraft...
I guess he WAS a FAKIR!
We; in the West; KNOW it’s Turtles; All The Way Down!