(March 21, 2015 at 11:56 am)Rhythm Wrote: Again, you have loony ideas about sci fi (and also, amusingly, science). Go find a mirror, and give -yourself- this talking to? You've completely lost me Brian.
Not brain surgery here.
Si fi should not be given a pass anymore than any other aspect of life. That simple. Unless you act on a claim with testing and falsification and peer review it remains a claim. After the fact retrofitting does not constitute science. If you are looking back at non lab depictions and going "look what they invented" that is the same bad logic as Christians retrofitting "Aquinus knew about QM".
You can look at any si fi show or si fi movie and find tons more things in it that never become true. Just like you can find nice stories in religion as metaphor but does not constitute inventing anything.
It is still the same after the fact selection bias and sample rate error on par with what theists do.
