Is science correct

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Perhaps I am redoing a topic, but what are the views on how valid our current theories are. What about new discoveries and ideas that contradict the current theories. Do they mean we should trust modern science or do they mean we should reinvent new scientific theories or remodel some of our existing concepts.

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jetpacman said:
Perhaps I am redoing a topic, but what are the views on how valid our current theories are. What about new discoveries and ideas that contradict the current theories. Do they mean we should trust modern science or do they mean we should reinvent new scientific theories or remodel some of our existing concepts.

This should be interesting
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Well you can trust the science that gave you a computer and continues to give us faster computers. And the science that puts satellites into orbit. And the science that has doubled the average human lifespan over the last couple of hundred years.

Should I go on?

Science is self correcting, particularly when it comes to practical application of scientific theory.

"do they mean we should reinvent new scientific theories or remodel some of our existing concepts."

Thats pretty much what scientists do. Who is this we of which you speak?
 
A nice example of a scientific prediction 30 years ago observed today. Link

Edit: Fixed Link
 
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Fixed. thanks
 
Science is never finished or done. It constantlly creates new ideas and theories as more data becomes available. So what you are describing is already part of the process, and the process on the whole works. when people want to "throw out science', it's usually because what it is telling us is contrary to their own world view and beliefs.
 
Science is the search for Truth.
Theories are just theories - they morph as the situation becomes clearer.
You cannot denounce science - if you do, its probably because of religious reasons..
 
Surv0 said:
Science is the search for Truth.
Theories are just theories - they morph as the situation becomes clearer.
You cannot denounce science - if you do, its probably because of religious reasons..
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Of course you cannot denounce science (a very general term) but you can denounce faulty logic when someone draws incorrect or biased conclusions
based on questionable findings or extrapolates specific findings to
a larger scope - generalisation. Things like that occur all the time and
that's why scientific findings are usually published in journals for
review.
 
I posted a link to this article in another thread a while back that I think is quite illuminating in terms of "new discoveries" and the scientific process.

From that article:

Scientists would find the apparent contradiction interesting and worthy of further investigation, and would devote further study to isolating the source of the contradiction. They would not suddenly throw out all previous results. Yet, one often gets the impression that scientific progress consists of a series of revolutions where scientists discard all their past thinking each time a new result gets published. This is often because only a small handful of high-profile studies in a given field are known by the wider public and media, and thus unrealistic weight is attached to those studies. New results are often over-emphasised (sometimes by the authors, sometimes by lobby groups) to make them sound important enough to have news value. Thus "bombshells" usually end up being duds.
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In other words, be quite wary of some hot new discovery that's going to overthrow all the established theories. While it's obvious that humans' understanding of natural processes is continually being refined, re-defined and expanded, this tends to be a rather gradual process, so I don't think we can simply throw out existing established scientific knowledge because there are new contradictory theories out there.
 
Science is always proving new theories and disproving others.

We are still so very very far from knowing 1% of how the universe works.

I mean we only lately found that we do have gaint squids on planet earth (now how the hell did we miss that) :p

What about the countless other planets that we are yet to explore?
(new elements ect )

Science works like learning maths, first we grasp the general easier ideas and the more we work at it and the more things we know the more complex and amazing it becomes....
 
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