Radical. Science is the body of peer-reviewed published work. Perhaps science is a passing fad, but this would grease the skids.
In post 1919 you said: "As to the proof: It is not faith if the proof is possible, even if the philosophy prof marks up the paper so it bleeds."
But in post 1923 you said: "Radical. Science is the body of peer-reviewed published work. Perhaps science is a passing fad, but this would grease the skids."
Er, I cannot reconcile these two statements. If your "proof" were possible even though it was rejected by the authorities, you still wouldn't want it published in an outlet for rejected papers even though you consider it a "proof"?
IOW, the appeal to the anthropic principle in lieu of a scientific or mathematically plausible explanation is tantamount to asserting the metaphysical naturalist "religion".
It is precisely the same kind of argument as "God did it" - only in this case "nature did it".
And the Medieval Religion, the Holy Church of Rome, was exactly that too.
That definiton of "science" is your own and very limited.
Galileo, for example, found himself not a peer, yet reviewed very harshly by peers. What if those peers had succeeded?
It is folly to seperate "religion" from science. There are many follies -- confusing the acceptability of hard expertimentally proved theory with idle or near-idle spiritual speculation is also folly.
Full knowledge of life and reality includes philosophy, "religion", hard science, math, logic, even soft science like evolutionary theory or creation theory. It is wise to include G-d knowledge when that knowledge can be shown to have a reliable chain-of-custody, and spiritiual inferences that can be arrived at by logic, hard science and math, or by deduction from reliable chain-of-custody revelation.
And so too "science" -- that "science" exactly as you defined. Institutionalized science is the modern version of the Medeival High Church of Rome. It may well fall -- as you called it!
Will it -- in its lengthly throes of death -- parallel the Church's decline? Will we have an Inquisition? Are we having one?
Radical. Science is the body of peer-reviewed published work. Perhaps science is a passing fad, but this would grease the skids.
How about Annals of Improbable Research which IIRC was formerly known as Journal of Irreproducible Results
/grin
Cheers!