The fight over Darwin - Teaching evolution in schools

[Khuutra]

appolose said:

Khuutra said:

appolose said:

In my scenario, if it were a case of us missing something, then I am positing that to assume so would be to contradict a basic tenet (that's better, eh?) of science. While you may be right in saying this is a thought experiment, my point is merely to demonstrate that is is possible for science to come to a supernatural conclusion.

No, it isn't.

In that scenario, a guy would go "Okay guys! We have missed something. We better change the field theory!"

Scientists will never come to the conclusion that something supernatural is going on. If there is a God, he'd be part of the natural order anyway, and probably accounted for in a unified field theory.

If they did, that would contradict that basic tenet of science (being, that if something is observed enough, it is assumed to be true).

"Scientists will never come to the conclusion that something supernatural is going on".

No offense, but I do know that that is your position already :/

I do not know where you are getting this tenet from. If something is observed not to be true, ever, then it's not true. If we can find an explanation, fine, but if we can't, theories get thrown out. That's not in violation of science.

Here, let me break down your hypothetical, see if I have this right:

Scientist A observes a phenomenon.

Scientist B observes soemethign that suggests that phenomenon could never happen.

For argument's sake, we will say that they observed these separate happenings a billion times.

About right so far?