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Originally Posted by Detector  A person could write several books just on the times science has been wrong. Oh wait! lots of people already have!
Just do a search for "Junk science", "mistakes in science" or the like for a very long list of available books.
Some of the more well known would be "the earth is flat" and "the earth is the center of the universe".
I'm not looking to rag on science, I'm just pointing out that science can be just as wrong in theories as the rest of us. What cracks me up is that science goes to great lengths to attempt to explain, with complicated words, why their guess was wrong.
I don't think science would be licking their wounds near as often if they weren't so eager to try and prove a guess right. Take the Pal-down Chicken, or whatever its called, where science once again claims to have found the missing link in China. In the end it was found to be a hoax like all the other missing links. Perhaps a bit of testing first would have saved face.
When science is proved wrong they go to great lengths to justify why they guessed wrong. They simply say thats what science is. They make a theory/guess and then test it. Mmmm... OK. So how is that different from someone guessing?
A hypothesis is an educated guess about how things work. |
I think the difference that you are missing is this, the fact that science actually tests the 'guess' to see if it is correct or not. Something doesn't become a theory until many tests. Also, you claim science is wrong a lot, I would dispute that rather heavily. About the only way science is wrong is when a scientific law is proven to be incorrect. Anything science does before it becomes a law really can't be incorrect, as we are trying to still figure it out.
Lay people make guesses and leave them at that. They do no further investigation etc. That is the difference.