RE: A question about the lifespan of scientific theories.
January 12, 2015 at 1:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2015 at 1:17 pm by jesus_wept.)
(January 11, 2015 at 8:12 pm)Hammod1612 Wrote: A quick question to all of the people holding the facts out there:
I'm personally an Atheist, and was recently in a discussion with my Christian friend about God, evolution and so forth.
A thing that bugged me a bit was one of her "facts," which i could not really comment upon since i didn't have the knowledge about it.
Her argument was, that religion had lasted for thousands of years, and apparently (according to her "facts"), scientific theories have an average "lifespan" of about 30 years. Now i know for a fact that it's because science constantly discovers new things to replace the old theories, which i told her, but is this actually a fact, that theories have an average lifespan of 30 years?
Ask her if she's ever heard of the argument from tradition fallacy and tell her that the belief that the earth is flat is much older then the belief that the earth is spherical.
edit: i dont like saying that the earth being spherical is a belief but I dont know how else to phrase it.
