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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (18766)	7/20/2001 10:34:25 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 82486

Quite. And science can indeed change course dramatically at need: - as a result of new findings (e.g., Big Bang theory confirmed by the interstellar background radiation). - new insight which better fits and predicts observable reality (evolution theory; plate tectonics). - redefinition of existing knowledge yielding new findings (organisation of the periodic table, predicting hitherto-unknown elements which were later identified). - gradual planned investigation (e.g., into the compounds of the 'noble gases', after greater understanding of electronic structure predicted that they should have some; or the current genetic mapping producing some startling new findings). But always the logic and rigour remain. It isn't a matter of belief in some immutable but untestable 'truth' (which, strangely, can sometimes be altered by decree into a new immutable 'truth'...). The same predictions are valid everywhere, for everyone. Gravity is thoroughly objective <g>