Medieval scientists were geocentric because of their confidence in the authority of Aristotle, Ptolemy, and the Bible, not because of the evidence."
No, actually scientists held a static point of view and watched the sun revolve around them. That was their direct evidence.
...and today's scientists are so confident because of __________.
Well, you can fill in the blank if you like, it really doesn't matter, does it? Science isn't complete, yet people take the current fashion as some kind of Gospel.
Newton was right...err, he was wrong, well he wasn't totally wrong, well...it was that his point of view was limited to the information of the day...Einstein was right, well, err, he was wrong, well he wasn't totally wrong..., errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
View a pencil with any degree of depth perception looking directly at the sharpened point, you see a cone. Look at the length of a pencil, you see a yellow cylinder. Look at the eraser and you see a round pink nipple.
So which is the right point of view? It is impossible of course to view the pencil from all points of view at once. So the pencil looks like a cone, like a yellow line, like a round pink nipple, etc.
So any thinking person (you can exclude yourself if you wish) would reasonably conclude that all the scientific knowledge is a function of the point of view they take.
The point of view is always, I repeat, always....relativistic in nature.
So you are satisfied with relativistic truths?
Fine by me.
Men of uncertainty who reject faith in a power greater than themselves seek the certainty just as much as anyone else.
Good luck with your science...you are obviously so very, very scientifically intelligent.
LMAO...
Oh, you all caps is quite impressive. I can almost hear you yelling as you type.
By the way evolution itself is no stronger today than it was in the beginning.
There may be more opinions in favor of it, but opinions are not truths, which has been proven over, and over, and over again in science. It is also stronger because of now a full generation or two being indoctrinated into it fully.
The only constant in all of this since the beginning has been the human mind, which is limited, fallible, and subjective.
I continually ask the same question, and never get an answer:
1. What is the physical property of a thought? What is the atomic weight of a concept? What is the physical dimension of a negative number?
It is really too funny watching the so called "scientists" dance around the salient issues, clutching at whatever make them feel they have their feet firmly on the ground.
Again, I am sorry you are struggling so much with your faith, assuming you have any remaining.
Quote from smilingsynic:
Your arguments are so weak and so easily refuted--I feel like Georgia in the Sugar Bowl!
Medieval scientists were geocentric because of their confidence in the authority of Aristotle, Ptolemy, and the Bible, not because of the evidence.
As scientific instruments were invented, more data about the solar system was found, and that data supported a heliocentric solar system.
It was EVIDENCE that showed that the model was wrong.
It has been well over a century since Darwin published his OTOOS, and yet evolution is much stronger now than then. Why? The evidence confirms it.
You may choose not to believe it. Fine, go right ahead. 1/4 of Americans believe the earth is the center of the solar system. Scientific ignorance, indeed, is rather common.
