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Dulfite said:
Torillian said:

Science is the best understanding we currently have of the universe given the information available.  The fact that our general understanding of the universe is constantly evolving to accomodate more data as they become available is a feature not a bug.  

My point is that it will be a never ending "evolving" process, if you will, and yet we have people claiming *insert one of the hundreds/thousands of "scientific breakthroughts" discovered every year here* that whatever discovery is made is absolute and revolutionary, only to claim it was misguided years later. If a company kept coming out with a new phone every year, claiming it will do so and so features and it never lived up the expectation, would you keep buying products from them or start to put your trust in another company?

Well I think this misconception that "science" is going against its own word every month is due to how the media reports scientific discoveries.  When you read the actual article most of these news stories are based on they are much more humble and try to be as conservative as possible with what their results could mean.  Go read the results and discussion section of the science articles these news stories are based on and you'll see what I mean.  



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