On Feb 17, 2006, at 12:32 PM, William Robb wrote:
I tend to believe that if we can't explain something through scientific means, we should be inventing better science, and not concluding that some giant invisible hand is steering things.
I'm totally with you on this, right up until:
There is as much or more bad science as there are bad religions.
Just curious as to your basis for that belief. Of course there have been and will certainly continue to be scientific theories that turn out to be inaccurate, either through inadequate research technology or flawed methodology. Scientists are people and are as subject to self-deception (e.g., subjective validation, confirmation bias, etc.) as the rest of us. However, a great strength of the scientific method is that it recognizes this and is, over time, self-correcting.
- Marco
