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TheBear
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Re: Lets Blow this Dowsing Lark off Fina
Apr 05, 2006, 08:40
> Oh it doesn't. It just proves that not everything is 'proveable' (yet).

Again, subtle point, but the scientific method doesn't set out to 'prove' anything. The nature of experiment is to try and repeat what someone else claims they have discovered and see if they are wrong. If their claims are found to be wrong then their theroy is wrong. By eliminating the theories that are found to be wrong what remains are our best explanations of how the world is. It's a common misconception to speak of a scientific proof...and it's true that in a shorthand way of speaking many scientists may speak like that but all they can really say is that their theroy hasn't been proven wrong yet. However, importamtly this doesn't necessarily allow a back to mean that the theory will be shown to be wrong in the future, often that it may currntly be incomplete. i.e. as seen in the preogreesion through the findings of Copernicus to Gallileo via Newton to Einstein... each subsequent step was a refinement of the previous explanation by attempting to disprove it. We cannot disprove Einstein's theory of relativity, so for now it stands as one of the best explanations of how nature is.
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