
Originally Posted by
Rediscover
To me it seems the scientific method is the culprit, the poor scientists are bound by it. The science of it, or workings of it all, is beyond beautiful for curious people, including scientists.
If there's lies, big lies and statistics, then we should comprehend the place the scientific method takes in this. As the scientific method depends on repeatability in order to give way for possible falsification, it is a must-be-repeatable way of defining scientific proof.
The search for data yields data, the mean of all data is the scientific proof, the chance that any data measured corresponds with the mean is very small. This could in extremo lead to a case where although statistically proven, the result never matched any of the datapoints. The coin never fell 50% head and 50% tail, it simply can not do that in reality.
No scientific proof can ever be given for non-repeatable events, the event just happened, that's about all there is to say about it.
Does that mean it didn't happen, by no means, it definitely happened but there is no way to repeat it. If we were to blow up our entire solar system then that just happens, we won't be able to recreate the experiment.
Still there is cause and effect, still it probably occured by a logical chain of events, still it probably has a scientific model to it, but as far as science is concerned that cannot be proven therefore it has no scientific validity and is expelled from scientific reality
Recreating a similar setup to test it will exclude a vast amount of parameters, time and place to start with, and might produce head instead of tail. What has been proven, only the possibilty that it might or could happen that way? Are we really able to exclude time and space with all it's information in it from our experiments if we have no means of excluding it in (perceived) reality? Time and space are a primary necessity to perform any measurement but we don't include that factor in our science?
On the other hand, how do we prove the solar system hasn't blown up yet, should it really be necessary to falsify the theory and test the falsification (e.g. blow it up) to prove it hasn't blown up yet? If no then there seems a little whitespace in the otherwise rigid scientific standard, a little space for science-agnostics.
The exclusion of untested or untestable possibilities or probabilities from reality by a religious demand for proof makes science more of a religion than a real way to find the truth about reality.
For I say to thee: All shall be proven, all what is proven is true, all that is not proven holds no value, thou shalt prove it or suffer the dire consequences of scientific blasphemy.