Monday 16 July 2012

Science is Not a Matter of Opinion

Over at Irregular Webcomic, David Morgan-Mar has an excellent piece about science and the scientific method.  Specifically he shows how science is not just another belief, and it's ultimately irrelevant if you think scientific conclusions don't make sense; only that they agree with, explain and predict experimental results.  To quote from his conclusion,
[Scientific theories] do not explain our world because a bunch of people believe in them. They do so because they reflect deep, underlying truths about how our universe works.
Go read the rest.

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