RE: The Tower of Babel
August 6, 2018 at 2:18 am
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2018 at 2:19 am by vulcanlogician.)
(August 5, 2018 at 8:44 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(August 5, 2018 at 7:33 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Why would mainstream scientists be "unwilling to accept" something that is evident? Evidence is kinda their whole schtick.
I'll give you some time to fabricate a conspiracy theory if you need to. And trust me. You need to.
What are you talking about? Science constantly changes in accordance with new evidence (eventually), mainstream science was unwilling to accept Newton's theory that light consisted of particles, yet here we are...
New theories, especially ones that break the old paradigm, are often considered "false until proven true."
The reason that Newton's particle theory was rejected is because evidence pointed to light being a wave. The old paradigm had no theoretical room for wave-particle duality. But scientists didn't figure wave-particle duality out later by consulting cranks. They followed the evidence until it lead to a paradigm shift. Scientists are open to paradigm shifts as they can be. The article you quote called this "unwillingness"... at best, it was a poor word choice.
