http://www.scottfreethinking.com/2010/01/what-brought-scott-out-of-slumber/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:38:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.scottfreethinking.com/2010/01/what-brought-scott-out-of-slumber/comment-page-1/#comment-305 Response to Reader: Missi of MissisMusings.com – What Can Science Prove? | Scott Free Thinking Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:05:09 +0000 http://www.scottfreethinking.com/?p=243#comment-305 [...] I got an interesting comment the other day on my entry which explained why I have begun writing in this blog again after over a year of being away from it. I decided it would be a good idea to, not just respond to the commenter, create a post out of the comment for the benefit of my readers to sort of dive into some interesting ideas that the comment touched base on. The below writings were originally a comment on my entry: What Brought Scott Out of Slumber? [...] [...] I got an interesting comment the other day on my entry which explained why I have begun writing in this blog again after over a year of being away from it. I decided it would be a good idea to, not just respond to the commenter, create a post out of the comment for the benefit of my readers to sort of dive into some interesting ideas that the comment touched base on. The below writings were originally a comment on my entry: What Brought Scott Out of Slumber? [...]

]]> http://www.scottfreethinking.com/2010/01/what-brought-scott-out-of-slumber/comment-page-1/#comment-301 Missi Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:15:52 +0000 http://www.scottfreethinking.com/?p=243#comment-301 Hi Scott...just started reading your blog today. Love the way you write and your article on Pavlina. You have a lot of great points in this post but I wanted to point out that science, while very useful, can't PROVE anything. It serves only to disprove. We can't know anything for certain. There have been many failures of the scientific method which I won't go into here, but consider that even though a scientific theory may have several experiments to back it up, it takes only ONE counter example to disprove a theory. The BCS theory of superconductivity was confirmed over and over again for 25 years, but in 1986, just one experiment disproved that theory. Looking forward to reading more. Hi Scott…just started reading your blog today. Love the way you write and your article on Pavlina. You have a lot of great points in this post but I wanted to point out that science, while very useful, can’t PROVE anything. It serves only to disprove. We can’t know anything for certain. There have been many failures of the scientific method which I won’t go into here, but consider that even though a scientific theory may have several experiments to back it up, it takes only ONE counter example to disprove a theory. The BCS theory of superconductivity was confirmed over and over again for 25 years, but in 1986, just one experiment disproved that theory. Looking forward to reading more.

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