| outlawauron said: Goodness. I commend you appolose for standing up for yourself against the dogpile you're facing. Seriously it's like a bunch guys beating up one dude in an alley. |
We can't help it if he's wrong.
The scientific process, by its definition, does not ever allow you to reach for the supernatural. It simply states you keep testing the theory, you keep trying to find out why your understanding is inconsistent. The scietific process is about proving things based on trying to disprove them, and it is a core concept that everything taken to be right is held as a theory only waiting to be proved wrong.
I admire appolose for chipping away, but his basic position is flawed.
If a scientist reached for the supernatural as an explanation due to contradictory observations, even respective to core, established scientific tenets, he ceases to be applying the scientific process. In a sense he ceases to be a scientist. Many, many times core scietific tenets have been crushed, shown to be wrong, and thrown away. appolose's proposition has, essentually, actually happened many times, and never has the supernatural been brought in to explain things.
appolose is simply proceeding, unless I'm missing something in his arguement, from a position of falsehood. You can be kind, you can be cruel, but if you understand the scientific process you're stuck trying to get him to see he's fundamentally wrong.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
