(November 11, 2012 at 10:31 am)Stimbo Wrote: Really? The Michelson-Morley experiment proved that the luminiferous aether, which scientists up to then had insisted must be a pervading medium throughout the Universe in order to propogate light, does not exist.Have you heard of Ignaz Semmelweis? Of course you have, and what happened when he did something that he didn't have a sufficient scientific explanation for? That's right, he was "creatively fired"! Okay, so we now know his theory about cadaverous poisoning was hogwash, but really the theory didn't matter as much as the observation did it? He was laughed at because he didn't have a sufficient theory, but he had clear and certain observable evidence.
And what mistake did they make? That's right - expecting to have answers from science. Semmelweis had a prediction for the behavioural chance that was consistent with observation, it didn't matter whether or not he had the answer or whether or not he contracted the scientific consensus at the time, regardless he was right wasn't he?
