(December 31, 2015 at 12:50 pm)Red_Wind Wrote:(December 27, 2015 at 2:27 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Do you recognise the fundamental difference between proof and evidence?
I don't think he does :p
For OP:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the...ific-proof
Particularly this bit:
Quote:Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science. Mathematics and logic are both closed, self-contained systems of propositions, whereas science is empirical and deals with nature as it exists. The primary criterion and standard of evaluation of scientific theory is evidence, not proof. All else equal (such as internal logical consistency and parsimony), scientists prefer theories for which there is more and better evidence to theories for which there is less and worse evidence. Proofs are not the currency of science.
Food for thought.
