Who is to say that what is taught Eg. Scientific fact like Evolution theory..is not correct?

Question

All throughout history beliefs and scientific fact has been proven incorrect eg. earth flat, atom- smallest particle, sun revolving around the earth and etc.

I mean in a hundred years is what we are taught to believe going to be proven wrong
and are you all so closed minded to not think that there isnt even the smallest chance we are wrong.

Answer 1

Scietific theories are based on observation, and are incrementally demonstrated to be correct. By now, the theories you talk about are accepted as fact because so much evidence supports them.

Ideas like the earth being flat or the earth being centre of the universe originated in christian catholic bigotry. These were known to be false by the greeks, but the pope through the inquisition insisted they were true because he said so - and you died if you disagreed.

Of course, scientific theories are not complete, and change over time - sometimes dramatically - as we learn more.

Answer 2

Actually, the flat earth was not a scientific theory. Nor was geocentrism. However, the point remains that we have often found that, what was thought to be true, is incorrect.

In fact, as science never gives "correct" answers, but rather, the best answer given our current knowledge, the odds are that any given theory is wrong. I said wrong, but this isn't really the most accurate way to describe it. I should say incomplete. This is because we very rarely find accepted scientific theories to be wrong, but we often find that it was incomplete.

The evidence we have accumulated excludes the possibility that we are totally wrong, in many fields. But our knowledge might be (and probably is) incomplete. For example, we know evolution occurs. There is no doubt of that fact, just as there is no doubt that the mean annual distance between the Earth and the Sun is approximately 93 million miles. However, there may be mechanisms which contribute to evolution, which we are at present unfamiliar with.

Answer 3

The key ingredient to "science" is the Scientific Method, which requires us to continually re-test, re-challenge, and re-prove all of our ideas. This is what makes science a "self-correcting" process. The idea is that with new data (from, say, newer and better technologies), new facts will be revealed over time. So, yes, some of the things in which we believe will doubtless be improved. Except for Physics, I doubt we'll have any major discoveries that will undo EVERYTHING we ever believed. That is, I doubt--very seriously--that anyone will undo modern evolutionary theory. I believe it will continue, however, to be refined...as all areas of scientific endeavor will also be.

Physics is on the verge of such a revolution, however. We're getting closer to having working string theory, and will know MUCH more after next summer when the LHC at CERN ( a monster atom smasher) comes on line. It's an exciting time to be a scientist!

Answer 4

Science never made the claim that the earth revolved around the sun and that the earth was flat.

And besides, evolution is supported by millions of pieces of scientific evidence which have been gathered and tested for over a century.

Answer 5

the fast answer: evolution does not genuinely have something to do with how existence got here to exist in the international- it is a thoroughly separate challenge from Creationism, or the question of how the 1st molecules got here to exist. Evolution is approximately how modern-day species replace, with the aid of organic, synthetic, and sexual determination, to in specific situations branch out and form new species. Scientists who help evolution could have comments on the advent of existence, however the belief itself by no potential mentions it. that could desire to disguise # a million, 2, 3, 5, 6, and seven. i'm not sure what relevance #4 had.

Answer 6

That isnt possible scientiists have found Ape like skelitons in africa

Answer 7

Nice try, CREATIONIST.....!

That's the worst thing I can call you