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Who killed Mr. Boddy in the study and with what?: the great debate topic™®
Maxwell.:
if I was made of strings then why am I not all tangled up
science has a lot of explaining to do.
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: ßløçks on October 11, 2015, 05:54:50 PM ---Depends really on what type of science it is, the only thing I would deem untrustworthy though is all the theories out there about some really stupid stuff.
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Like what?
Not to fault you or anything, but "theory"
has a different meaning in science than it does in everyday usage
Georges:
Excluding simple things that anyone can tell are true (for example, 2x2=4), science cannot truly prove things. Does that mean that what we know about certain things is incorrect? No! But that's exactly what scientists years ago thought on theories which have since been shown to be incorrect.
What I'm saying is that no, its not entirely trustworthy. Any theory or law can theoretically be overturned by new evidence.
Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: Georges on October 11, 2015, 06:08:12 PM ---Excluding simple things that anyone can tell are true (for example, 2x2=4), science cannot truly prove things. Does that mean that what we know about certain things is incorrect? No! But that's exactly what scientists years ago thought on theories which have since been shown to be incorrect.
What I'm saying is that no, its not entirely trustworthy. Any theory or law can theoretically be overturned by new evidence.
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You have to be careful there, because even 2x2 can be something completely different under different mathematical rules.
You're really misunderstanding the point of science as a whole though. The point of science is to find the best explanations we can find for how reality works through an unbiased and impartial scientific process, not to prove something with 100% certainty but with as high probability as we as fallible humans can manage.
Georges:
--- Quote from: Ipquarx on October 11, 2015, 06:28:45 PM ---You have to be careful there, because even 2x2 can be something completely different under different mathematical rules.
You're really misunderstanding the point of science as a whole though. The point of science is to find the best explanations we can find for how reality works through an unbiased and impartial scientific process, not to prove something with 100% certainty but with as high probability as we as fallible humans can manage.
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well if that's the case, it's still untrustworthy, because we don't know what we don't know.
Also 2x2 was just an example.