Natural Order and Science

[little_monkey]

The inbuilt mechanism comes from having empirical evidence supporting the theory. Any theory that is supported by empirical evidence means that anyone in the world can verify your theory if that evidence is objective, observable and based on experiments that are repeatable. Through this process, a theory can be corrected.

Sorry, I thought he was referring to some natural phenomenon having some kind of designed inbuilt mechanism of self correction.

If he's disputing that science is self correcting then he really does not understand what the scientific method is and really is quite ignorant.

 Harris believes that an individual's conscience is a substitute for how science can be corrected. But an individual's conscience can be stubborn and never open for any correction, in particular, for an individual who believes that his religion is inerrant. In that case, there is no way the individual can correct his beliefs... unless he totally abandons his inerrant beliefs, which happens very very rarely.