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	Can science be PROVED?

crabsallover

3-3-2007 3:38 AM

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science, scientific method

crabsallover says:

"When generating theoretical ideas scientists should be fearlessly radical, but when it comes to interpreting evidence we should all be deeply conservative."

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c66405ae-eaa6-438e-9833-13e7cafefe8d/166FEC70-2A8F-408B-96F5-F9856DF85AA1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://christophergovanstreet.blogspot.com/2007/03/inside-inflation-after-big-bang.html" href="http://christophergovanstreet.blogspot.com/2007/03/inside-inflation-after-big-bang.html" style="font-size: 11px;">christophergovanstreet.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://christophergovanstreet.blogspot.com/2007/03/inside-inflation-after-big-bang.html">The only problem was that there wasn't a shred of evidence that inflation had actually happened.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://christophergovanstreet.blogspot.com/2007/03/inside-inflation-after-big-bang.html">It is difficult to talk sensibly about scientific proof of phenomena that are so far removed from everyday experience. <SPAN>At what level can we prove anything in astronomy? We all accept that the Earth goes around the sun, but do we really know for sure that the universe is expanding? I would say that the latter hypothesis has survived so many tests and is consistent with so many other aspects of cosmology that it has become, for pragmatic reasons, an indispensable part of our world view. But I would hesitate to say that it was proven beyond all reasonable doubt.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://christophergovanstreet.blogspot.com/2007/03/inside-inflation-after-big-bang.html">When generating theoretical ideas scientists should be fearlessly radical, but when it comes to interpreting evidence we should all be deeply conservative.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://christophergovanstreet.blogspot.com/2007/03/inside-inflation-after-big-bang.html">Many theories are beautiful, but that is not sufficient to prove them right.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/166FEC70-2A8F-408B-96F5-F9856DF85AA1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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