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theprof00 on 07 September 2011
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padib said:

"And I find it funny that the religious one is "misinformed" about what a scientific theory is. Because that's just typical"

Stop! for heaven sakes stop with the labelling. You think religion was free of criticism, really?! That's not the world I've lived in for the past 27 years. All my life I've been made to feel stupid because I believed in God. Damn it you guys don't see reality as it is do you? There are misinformed people everywhere, it's just a fact of life. And the further we go on in a direction of hegemony in this pseudo-science, the more you will see such ignorance also in that camp. It's human nature and has everything to do with common ideology. It's a trap to many people, but not all.

Anyways, to get back to the point. 

First of all, theory IS the highest level an idea can have. Theory doesn't become law once it's proven. Theory is the highest level. Once you understand that, you can think about this next part. Theories are never 100% proven, because we could always be wrong....wait for it....about a technicality. For example, it was a theory that everything revolved around the sun. This was 99% true. Everything (in our solar system) revolves around the sun. It took MORE INFO to realize that it was slightly off, and that there was more out there that revolved around other things.

What about the theory in Gallileo's time that everything revolved around the earth. It was mostly false, apart for the moon. There are theories that contradict each other and in many if not most cases only one can be true. You can't use a case of a theory that is very solid like Heliocentrism and use that as a all-englobing scenario. There were opposing theories that were proven false in the mean time. It's like evolution in a sense, the strongest theory survives. So it's not because the strongest theory survived that a theory in general is the closest to the truth. On the contrary for that one surviving theory a handful of others were invalidated. So a theory is but a theory. It can become the theory accepted by mankind, or it can be completely rejected.

For the rest, I would appreciate less venom. Phrases like "foolish pride", "an idiotic christian decision" and other wordings are hostile and offensive. It would be best if you just kept it to yourself honestly.

1. I readdressed that part by saying it's not religious people, it's bad christians who are the problem. Unfortunately bad christians are the majority.

2. WHAHAHAHAHA

Guess who were the main opponents of heliocentrism. Guess who were the main opponents of Darwin. Hint: the church.

And don't act like science today is anything like science many hundred years (or in some cases, thousands) ago...things aren't as ignorantly held in belief like they once were.