RE: What is science?
December 19, 2014 at 12:49 pm
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2014 at 12:52 pm by Alex K.)
(December 19, 2014 at 12:41 pm)polar bear Wrote: It is much harder to apply science because you have to admit you are wrong when the facts present themselves different from what you believe at the time. Faith on the other hand requires no change of mind until years of proof show how foolish it is to hold on the their belief.
I had a discussion with a physics crackpot the other day who tried to convince me of his fringe ideas about gravity or some such nonsense, and I once again realized how lazy their state of mind is. Doing real science correctly is a damn nightmare, because almost all of your brilliant ideas are wrong or even inconsistent after further analysis, and you not only have to live with that but even by yourself do the hard work of proving yourself wrong, weeding out tons of ideas before even writing down your first hypothesis for others to see. Imagine being in a framework such as conspiracy theory or theology, where there is no such mechanism of quality control - you immediately get lazy and pile on unchecked nonsense.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
