Do You Accept Evolution as a Fact?

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fatslob-:O said:

Nem said:

Ermm... science IS about consensus. Consensus is gathered by the evidence.

I am not familiar with the claims you are making. Are you considering the scientific community to be limited to one country in order to have political interests? It doesn't sound very logical.

I have no idea what you are on about.

Science has no will or beliefs. What you are saying is ludicrous. Science looks at the evidence or demonstrates it to explains reality. It is not contingent on the agenda of religions. If religions are affected it's because they made laughable claims based on ignorance. Can't exactly blame Science for the mistakes religion does.

You're wrong, science isn't about consensus and people get this unbelievably wrong so many times it's frustrating ...

Is a consensus supposed to be right when most scholars in Galileo's time belived that the sun revolved around the earth ? 

Another trick question for you is if Newton's Laws surrounding motion is more correct than Einstein's theory of special relativity according to consensus at the time Einstein pusblished his paper ? 

And I am not saying that the scientific community is stuck in one country. It's that they are stuck in an echochamber where progressives limit academic freedom when it comes to the studies of the human genome ...

At least religion doesn't claim to be academically honest when large parts of the scientific community shames the shit upon those who studies between human genetic lines ... 

 

One thing that you seem to misunderstand is that scientists don't assume their theories to be unquestionable truths, or even necessarily likely yo be the truth.

 

For a scientist, a fact is simply something that is better justified than anything contesting, making any other belief foolish to hold - even if it remains possible.

 

Of course new ideas will receive alot of scrutiny. New theories are proposed all the time, and, more often than not, they contain strong flaws not immediately apparent.

Once it's all been double-checked, it becomes the new consensus.

 

 

For a layman, scientific consensus is the only rational conclusion to make - because you lack the knowledge to comprehend the problems and arguments to their full extent by yourself, your best evaluation of the most probable truth is taking whatever the most qualified individuals state as truth.