(March 6, 2016 at 4:44 am)little_monkey Wrote:(March 5, 2016 at 5:39 pm)Alex K Wrote: But the theories now stand on their own. If we tomorrow found a letter by Einstein recanting and saying how relativity theory was a big lie, it would not matter one iota for the science. Nothing would change.
You can fantasize all you want but thinking that Relativity "lies" is demonstrating a complete lack of understanding in how scientific theory works. Sure, there were theories in the past that got it wrong, but in the case of Relativity, it does explains quite convincingly a number of facts and therefore there will always be a kernel of truth in Relativity. If there is a new theory sometimes in the future, it will contain Relativity, just like Relativity contains Newtonian physics.
Theists use the same argument about Darwin while ignoring all the scientific evidence that has been accumulated since Darwin's time and how we now have a much better understand of the evolutionary process than he did. They have trouble getting past the idea of one author handing down 'Truth' in a single document.
