Claim CA250:
Scientific theories are always changing. You cannot trust what scientists
say, since it may be different tomorrow.
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Response:
- Science investigates difficult questions about unknown fields, and
scientists are human, so it is inevitable that scientific findings will
not be perfect. However, science works by investigating more and more,
which means results get checked and rechecked with further findings.
The reason some findings change is because they get corrected. This
process of correction helps make science one of the most successful
areas of human endeavor. The people who cannot be trusted are those who
are always right.
- As more evidence accumulates, scientific findings become more and more
certain. Theories that have withstood several decades of study may
undergo more refinement of details, but it is almost inconceivable that
they would be overturned completely.
created 2003-3-27, modified 2003-10-23