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Edited by Pepe Silvia:
10/22/2018 3:19:31 PM
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Science is a liar sometimes
Aristotle.
Thought to be the smartest man on the planet. He believed that the Earth was the center of the universe and everybody believed him because he was so smart. Until another "smartest guy" came around.
Galileo.
And he disproved that theory, making Aristotle and everybody else on Earth look like a bitch.
Of course, Galileo then thought comets were an optical illusion and there's no way the moon could cause the oceans tides. Everybody believed that because he was so smart.
He was also... WRONG, making him and everyone else on Earth look like a bitch again.
And then, the best of all, Sir. Isaac Newton gets born.
He blows everybodies nips off with his big brains. Of course, he also thought he could turn metal into gold and died eating mercury, making him, yet again, another stupid bitch.
Are you seeing a pattern? These were all the smartest scientists on the planet. Only problem is, they kept being wrong. Sometimes.
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1. Nobody says Aristotle was the smartest man in the planet. He was smart for his time, but we have had Einstein and Hawking and still have Tyson. 2. That was Copernicus, not Galileo. 3. That's how studies work. Things start as a hypotheses and are further studied to learn more about them. As time goes on, we learn more about it and update our ideas on the subject, whether they be theories or laws. Science is exact; studies of science are flawed.
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Edited by Ogma: Destroyer of Worlds: 10/23/2018 3:20:49 PMThat’s just the scientific method. That’s how it works. One must be willing to alter their view based on new discoveries that demand it. The point is that it’s based on observation, demonstration, and verification. That we can all collectively experience. Any idea that doesn’t arise from an observable event, is just an idea until something happens that suggests it.
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Wow, it’s almost like as humans become more advanced, they learn more about how stuff works, and their knowledge of the universe becomes more accurate. [spoiler]Oh wait, that’s just common sense[/spoiler][spoiler]I hope they remember you[/spoiler]
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So, you've been watching It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia if I had to guess?
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Yes, and how did each of these people, and those who came after them, reach the next level of understanding. They did so because of advances in science. The theory of these individual scientists may have been wrong, but that does not reflect on science as a whole. One person, from one particular area science (astronomy), is not reflective of every field of science. It would be like if you ate at two or three Italian restaurants, didn't like the food, and then concluded that all food was gross.
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Edited by Nebulrike: 10/22/2018 2:23:07 PMScience isn't a lie. Theories are wrong. Alot of trial of error. Sometimes alot of error It did make me laugh though
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The men were wrong. The science they got right continued on to shape the future. All scientists are people, and they are shaped by the biases and faults of their age. But the principles they unravel are true and ageless.
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Obviously what they did is figure one thing out and everyone believed them, so they lied to everyone to teach them to do their own Blam!ing dirty work!
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1 ReplyYou know, even a clock is wrong most the day when you forget to put fresh batteries in it!
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In the words of Steve Perry... "It goes on, and on, and on, and OooOOoOOOOn!"
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3 RepliesWow look at this idiot who watches it's always sunny....
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Because as we take what they learned and discovered and expand and correct upon it. That’s how science works, it’s a book that’s constantly being edited by thousands of people across different times
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Except none of those people were scientists... Guess this was were you ended up being wrong? [spoiler]Difference is, unlike all the people you listed, you haven't done anything notable to make up for it.[/spoiler]
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1 ReplySo... how are they biting today? Looks like you caught a couple of bigguns there.
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1 ReplyRock, flag and eagle 🤟🏻
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Edited by Uncanny_Vale: 10/22/2018 3:34:48 AMThat’s because science is a continuing process. Science doesn’t dictate ”truth” and then claim it’s final, unchanging and beyond questioning. It creates models that are conditionally true as long as the evidence supports it. As time goes on and new evidence is found and new ideas are formulated those models and revised or scrapped altogether. Science isn’t dogmatic - it’s pragmatic. It constantly updates itself in order to closer reflect reality. That’s why it’s been more successful than anything else humans have done at discovering the truth.
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And this is why every time I hear, "The science is settled," I cringe a little.
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Science is obviously an evolving subject, but the information we’ve learned in the last century or so is far more reliable than anything before that. Rapid advances in technology have made current methods and discoveries exponentially more convincing.
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It’s almost like science has a self refuting method that leads people to build on. All I see in your post is a poor translation of, “they all had some strange hypothesis that were eventually disproven”. It does NOT invalidate their work nor does it lessen the credibility of the founded scientific theories some of them produced. But PLEASE don’t confuse the definition of theory in this case. Scientific Theory is a term issued to proven science ie: gravitational theory etc.
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3 RepliesWait a minute, was Newton an alchemist?
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[quote]He blows everybodies nips off with his big brains. Of course, he also thought he could turn metal into gold and died eating mercury, making him, yet again, another stupid bitch.[/quote]Lmao
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