Do Scientist really prove anything completely?

Question

Yeah they give answers but with theses answers come a lot more questions. Whats your view?

If you read the question, it says Do scientist really PROVE anything completely? not Do scientist DEVELOP anything completely?. This question is about theories they try and prove and tell the world as being true.

Answer 1

If everything was proven completely the facts wouldn't keep changing. 1 & 1 always equals 2 but if it appeared to your understanding to be a 7 then it would be 14. First the cosmos didn't expand, then it did, then it was faster than expected. First Pluto was a orbiting body, then a planet & now it's not.

Science is based on known & suspected realities and theories. So as we know more about the determining factors we can come to logical conclusions with other known realities and by testing theories. But what's true today, may not be true tomorrow. Many things like flouride, garlic, etc. was thought to be good then discovered it was determined by faulty science or old wive's tales. But then in the case of garlic it was discovered it was better than originally believed.

Also like you said for every question answered more questions seem to come. I don't believe man will ever know all the answers this side of heaven but it's the search and discovery part that makes life interesting. What fun would life be if we had all the answers? To me it'd be rather boring.

Answer 2

The fact that you are communicating this very question over something which SCIENCE invented (computer, electronics, the underlying material science and theoretical sciences which understood the nature of semiconductors, electricity and magnetism) should hit you in the face like a screaming pie!

Do you drive a car? Take a bus? Buy refrigerated food or cook on an electric stove?

Do you use electricity or some other form of energy at all? Have you ever taken medicine to cure an infection?

You do know that nothing about religion or any other guesswork ever created anything that could be proven to work, right!

And yes, the more you seek, the more there is to know - that is the very nature of science and the pursuit of true knowledge. It's supremely arrogant for mankind to ever rest in comfort, thinking they have all of the answers.

Answer 3

Scientists do prove some things completely. They know the how many protons and electrons are in an element. They know how much power is released when they split an atom. These are things which science can measure, reproduce and observe. Some things science deals with cannot be proven completely, like macroevolution. There is evidence supporting it but it cannot be observed, reproduced or measured. Nobody has ever seen one species change into another, nor is anyone likely to. So, here they leave many questions. Important ones can't be answered. This is where faith comes in. Some people have so much faith in scientific theories like evolution that they become upset if you question it. They resort to name calling and criticism. Now that is not the scientific method, which welcomes questioning.

Answer 4

Technically the answer is yes - but only that something is NOT true. This is something that is not well understood by the general public. However, if an experiment is repeated one-thousand times and you get the same results 999 out of a thousand times, you can be fairly sure that what the scientists are saying is indeed, true. Complicated, true, but that's the correct explanation.

Answer 5

We can never have complete confidence in any knowledge, yet we still have a word for 'proof'. It's a semantic issue. Scientists prove things more completely than non-scientists, but even pure math is subject to human error.

As for 'a lot more questions', I would say no, the questions are becoming more rare.

Answer 6

Speaking as a scientist, we have never claimed to prove anything completely.

All of the discoveries of science are forever contingent upon the discovery of new information.

For a person to claim they have the absolute truth and then ignore all future evidence is unscientific.

Since this is in the Religion and Spirituality section, I'm guessing you are trying to compare religion to science. Science and Religion have two different purposes: the first is to describe the universe as it is; the second is to describe what the universe is for.

Answer 7

Science can never "prove" anything. What happens is that a theory is postulated and then evidence is gathered that will either support the theory or disprove it, Supportive evidence obviously substantiates the theory but can never prove it 100%. Any experimental evidence that goes against the theorem disproves it (if corroborated and repeatable) and the theory will then be revised and subject to the same experimental verification procedures, Even a not disproven theory can never be considered to be proven.

Answer 8

Of course ; that is the diffrence between science and the pseudo-science so common in the media. By definition, a scientist proves his statements via peer review, not on Ophra or in People

Answer 9

Not really. Scientists develop theories that attempt to explain observed phenomena given what they know at the time. Although additional evidence can support a theory, a theory can never be proven correct. It can, however, be proven incorrect.

Answer 10

Well, for a start, they proved that the Earth revolves around the sun, not vice versa, but this is just one proof in an ocean of many. I suggest you ask your science questions in the science section if you really want to learn. But if you are willfully ignorant, which I think it's safe to say that you are, stay here and poke science with a little stick like so many of your fellow ignoramus' do.