[MSSC6644]

It seems that just when we get arrogant enough to think we about have it figured out, God throws us a curve.

I agree. Some people never seem to learn.

[onedoug]

It's all a bunch of relativistic relativism.

[rmmcdaniell]

It seems that just when we get arrogant enough to think we about have it figured out, God throws us a curve.

I agree. Some people never seem to learn.

And some people never seem learn from thier mistake in assuming that if we can't explain everything RIGHT NOW then there must be some supernatural force at work. In my exeperience its the fundementalists that are far more arrogant that the scientists. Most scientists will tell you that they know very little about all there is to know about the universe. Scientists are more willing to admit when their wrong and when they can't explain something. Its the fundamentalists who always have an answer(usually wrong) for everything. I'm sorry I just couldn't allow your bashing of the scientific method to go uncontested.

[bernie_g]

That's the point of science though surely? You can never prove a theory *true* in scientific method, so oddly enough, by proving something false (which these guys haven't yet IMO) you get to move science along a little notch, your models of how the universe works get a little more precise.

What happens each time scientists do this is *precisely* learning. They adjust their view of the world to accomodate reality a little better and that's just what makes it learning.