(October 5, 2017 at 10:31 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote:(October 5, 2017 at 9:14 am)Little Rik Wrote: That is bizarre Harry.
Someone say that evidence is not proof.
Now is all getting very complicated.
In science …
Everything’s a theory.
Proof doesn’t exist.
Nothing is certain.
http://theconversation.com/forget-what-y...-thing-578
color mine
It's not bizarre. It's not complicated.
'Theory' in science doesn't mean the same thing as it usually means in informal conversation. Your linked article fudges that distinction when it says that all ideas in science are "theories". That's not strictly correct. The author seems to be using the everyday, informal sense of the word to underscore the tentative nature of scientific ideas.
Proof is not something that science supplies except only in the sloppy, everyday use of the word in informal settings. Properly speaking, 'proof' is provided in mathematics and logic -- not science.
'Nothing is certain' is a sloppy way of saying that all ideas/theories in science are tentative, pending further evidence that might falsify them or cause a re-evaluation of the way we think about them. Tentativity: that splinter of honesty that all dogmatists like you seem to lack.
The rule of the game within this physical universe is that everything move and change so what make sense today will be cast in the rubbish bin of history tomorrow that is why atheism that rely on physical science is based on pure fantasy.