"Well-established laws in science..."
What bugs me is the complete ignorance scientists have of what history does to popular thinking. It could be that the science we are doing today will be fully accepted two thousand years from now (if we last that long), but it's also possible (in my opinion) that the science of today will seem to be amusingly prejudiced and conceited.
What bugs me is the complete ignorance scientists have of what history does to popular thinking. It could be that the science we are doing today will be fully accepted two thousand years from now (if we last that long), but it's also possible (in my opinion) that the science of today will seem to be amusingly prejudiced and conceited.
I also said 'rarely' in what I wrote to you earlier. But, even so, unless the cosmos changes its current structure fairly drastically, no foreseeable future science is going to find that Newton's law of gravity doesn't do a fairly decent job of predicting how freely falling objects in a fairly weak gravitational field behave. Similarly, as Feynman wrote somewhere, in 40,000 years the only thing that will be remembered from the 19th century on Earth (if there's anybody around to remember, that is) will be Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, which, again, is a quite accurate theory of how electricity and magnetism behave so long as the energies aren't too large and the distances over which the interactions take place aren't too short.
You must remember that the scientific method is a very young thing (a few centuries old). And yet, even in its short period of existence, it has produced remarkable results. Not that there's not more to know, of course...
Indeed, there is no absolutely well established scientific discovery, just tentative approximate models. If we go into absolute we go into cult of repent and godhood.
Let us remember that there's no free lunch, and they treatscience as an emancipating free lunch. So long man is paranoid and does not trust the future actions of fellow man, such science will be used to iron that problem out.
Christ showed wondrous signs but warned those who had the "science" that crucifiction was the other side of that coin. It just does not take accepted gifts but hard work with people to manage those gifts.
What will these blackmailed scientists do or care for when nuke war occurs as a result of evolution. Mankind could very well be on a path to extinction as we know it, evolution be damned.