It might be possible to prove a scientific theory false, it is never possible to prove it true. Explain.?

Answer 1

Just going on from that last answer, you can never prove that it's true in EVERY case. All you need is one example of the opposite.

Answer 2

You cannot prove a theory true,because no matter how accurate the theory,no matter how consistent it's predictions,you can never prove with 100% certainty that those actions and predictions and effects in the theory merely coincide with those of a different process altogether.
Ptolemy is an example.He ACCURATELY charted and PREDICTED the planets,thinking they revolved around the Earth.It was a fine theory,could predict the planets location years in advance...and it was utterly incorrect.The predictions were accurate,but the PROCESS was different.

To DISPROVE a theory,however,one needs only find a single abberation to know the theory is not correct

Answer 3

Consider this statement: "Mark Chadwick is a vegan".

To prove that it is false, all you would have to do is catch him eating meat or dairy produce just once.

To prove that it is true, you would have to follow him everywhere until he died and never take your eyes off him for even the merest fraction of a split-second, just in case he managed to sneak a quick bite of meat or a crafty sip of milk while you weren't looking.

Scientific theories are usually expressed in such a way that they could be proved false with a single counter-example.

Answer 4

Science is not so much a body of facts, as system of falsifiable hypotheses. Einstein's theory of General Relativity was once only a hypothesis, regarded as outrageous, by many scientists, most of whom couldn't understand it. Then an experiment was performed, on the bending of light rays from a star, as they passed near the sun, which supported his prediction, so it came to be accepted, replacing the former, Newtonian view of physics, which had stood, unchallenged for 300 years. One day, relativity will be amended, or replaced, with something else: I hope I'm around to see it. So, you see, science is about creating new hypotheses, and then designing experiments, to try to falsify them: i.e.; prove them wrong.

Answer 5

i'm enormously plenty athiests yet EVEN i will see the opportunity of a simultaneous perception in god and technological know-how...possibly god made the great bang ensue and then watched the advent unfold...there are over 3 hundred million stars interior the milky way galaxy...and that's purely the milky way galaxy...there are billions of different galaxies all with tens of millions of stars and those stars all have planets orbiting them too...possibly god had to "plant a seed" with the point to talk and spot the place it took us...

Answer 6

you can prove it is true with enough evidence to the claim.