(June 21, 2009 at 7:52 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: Why go through all the pain and hardship when you already know what the conclusion will be? I just cut out the middleman.This is the same attitude the creationists take. The fact is, we don't know what the conclusion will be, and we will never know. Science doesn't prove things, it gives them a probability of being correct. Just because reincarnation (replace with any weird pseudoscience or belief) hasn't got any evidence to back it up doesn't mean the evidence won't eventually turn up.
Your attitude is the complete opposite of skepticism. If we took the same attitude you took, Lynn Margulis wouldn't be recognized as the person who discovered how eukaryotic organelles originated. In the 80's she came up with the idea and it was rejected because there was no sound evidence to support it. However, when she came up with a testable theory and the evidence to support it, science had no option but to agree. The point is, instead of rejecting it without even looking, they heard what she had to say, researched into her findings, and made a decision.
