(September 11, 2014 at 12:09 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: Atheists, how are you sure that any of the science is the truth? How can you tell? When we have no choice but to accept given after given to try to understand what we’re observing, how can we ever know anything for sure? When “scientific facts” often don’t live up to their predictions, how can we trust? There are many claims about the truth of reality, and many people who pose themselves as experts capable of making such claims. As for me, however, I trust that I perceive. I trust that I observe and form opinion. Beyond that, I humbly admit that I am ignorant with regard to the truth.
How are you so confident?
Given that the alternative to trusting the scientific method is to trust things that don't observe reality, catalog evidence and give tentative predictions and claims based upon the best information we have available, I think I'll stick with science, thanks.
Ultimately, you've confused the way science does things with the way religion does things: you never see a scientific prediction coming with a proclamation of absolute truth, and that confidence we have in it is earned, and worked towards, and demonstrated in the efficacy of science in our modern world, and the honesty that the scientific community has displayed over and over. Every scientific claim is conditional, and the fact that it does change to fit new information is the reason we should trust them, considering that the other path is to get new information that proves the old claims wrong, and yet still claim them anyway. How is it that you think that kind of willful ignorance is more trustworthy than an honest acceptance of incorrectness and a drive to do better?
Being wrong and changing to become right isn't a sign of weakness and untrustworthiness, and only a fool would think otherwise.
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