Wednesday, June 6, 2012

South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks

Except that "science" doesn't do any such thing. The fact that you perceive it as such says more about your understanding of science and worldview that you realize. For all the faults of humans, the scientific method is still the best way for uncovering and discovering knowledge about the reality that we live in. Let's do this, then:

This level of self-confidence in scientists humors me so.

Since you're typing this on a computer (science - materials science, quantum physics, computational science) that's connected to millions of others, that runs reliably on well understood scientific concepts and that uses electricity, as well as all of the other millions of devices you use every day that work reliably thanks to all those same scientific principles that we've developed over the history of the human race, I hope you recognize the irony in questioning why we have confidence in the method and process of science and the people whose job it is to apply it.

Such pride, to assume that their limited human brain with it's capability for frequent and unpredictable error is the source of perfect truth(is not every human flawed?).

The fact that we have limited brains and we know that they frequently deceive us is exactly the reason that we have a scientific method and process in the first place. There's no such thing as perfect truth, but we can certainly approach modeling reality with more and more exactness thanks to a self-correcting method. Humans may be flawed, but the universe has shown itself to be consistent and that we can figure it out to more and more degrees of precision despite those flaws. I'd say that's a hurdle worthy of being proud of overcoming. YMMV.

It's foolish to think that our conclusions are flawless and equivalent to a law.

You're right. That's why we don't do this. Only you think we do.

How often have integral theories been proven wrong or incorrect?

Plenty of times. This is what makes science great: it's self-correcting. That's the entire point.

We will never reach a final conclusion.

Unfounded assertion.

Who are you to say that your opinion is the only correct one? Who are you to say that your conclusions are the only possible set of results?

Reality does that, because science works. Science doesn't deal in opinions. You can have your own opinions, but you can't have your own facts.

Great men have fallen prey to pride and vanity. Don't let it cloud your judgement.

You miss the entire point of the scientific endeavor.

Your post was no so much original literature as it was the same rehashed "Hahaha! You think you're so smart, but you don't really know!!" tripe that we hear from anti-science creationists all the time and the only response it is worth of is, I repeat, "Science: it works. Bitches."

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