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{{a|cosmology|}}For those many reductionists who cleave to the idea that science is a profoundly convergent enterprise: that through relentless experience it converges on [[truth]] we offer this page as a gentle challenge. Scientismists<ref>Those who practice scientism, as opposed to scientists, being those who practice science.</ref> are given to invoking [[Occam’s razor]] to bat away illogical hypotheses of mystic types; the [[JC]] uses it to invite them to practice what they preach. | {{a|cosmology|{{image|Newton and apple|png|}}For those many reductionists who cleave to the idea that science is a profoundly convergent enterprise: that through relentless experience it converges on [[truth]] we offer this page as a gentle challenge. Scientismists<ref>Those who practice scientism, as opposed to scientists, being those who practice science.</ref> are given to invoking [[Occam’s razor]] to bat away illogical hypotheses of mystic types; the [[JC]] uses it to invite them to practice what they preach. | ||
===Falsified science=== | ===Falsified science=== | ||
In the papers you will hear tell of of “great scientific breakthroughs” or “monumental discoveries” of the last decade, as if there are large parts of human discourse that are as yet uncharted, and brave scientists are striking out across alien seas like Columbus in search of the new world. | In the papers you will hear tell of of “great scientific breakthroughs” or “monumental discoveries” of the last decade, as if there are large parts of human discourse that are as yet uncharted, and brave scientists are striking out across alien seas like Columbus in search of the new world. | ||
Modern life to the layperson doesn’t feel quite so incomplete, though, does it? The truth is that scientists making these discoveries are not breaking new ground so much as upend existing ground which other scientists have been been busily tilling, as if ''their'' science was the revealed word of God, for decades. Seen this | Modern life to the layperson doesn’t feel quite so incomplete, though, does it? The truth is that scientists making these discoveries are not breaking new ground so much as upend existing ground which other scientists have been been busily tilling, as if ''their'' science was the revealed word of God, for decades. Seen this way, breakthroughs are evidence for the frailty of science; for its susceptibility to change. | ||
So, with feeling | So, with feeling | ||