(December 17, 2014 at 6:17 am)robvalue Wrote: If someone has detailed, airtight evidence of a scientific theory being wrong, all you have to do is bring it forward. If you are correct, then science will adjust.
Not only that, but paradigm shifting discoveries that overturn readily accepted scientific theories are the sorts of things Nobel Prizes and big wodges of grant money are made of. Theists of a certain stripe often trot out this idea that all of science is merely a conspiracy to keep the status quo and keep down religion, but in doing so they ask us to believe that not a single scientist in possession of this (apparently!) easily attainable evidence is at all enticed by the prospect of material success, nor of going down in history as one of the great minds.
The entire thing is laughable on the face of it, but I can see the appeal of such conspiracy theories from the perspective of those with no actual evidence to their position. They get to recast their whole situation so that they're these bold truth holders, whom everyone secretly knows is one hundred percent correct. It's like being your own Mary Sue.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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