Miracles4Real
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One of my favorite Atheist Youtubers is Ozmoroid. He did this great video on science taking whatever crazy wacky "woo" idea and then working to falsify it.
Crazy ideas like turtles all the way down.
Even Gods might be proposed.
All can be intuited and proposed and then we can work to falsify them and maybe a few turn out to be true or alter our understanding and upgrade our intuitions.
That step seems, to me, to be critical in science. using your intuition to imagine a particular outcome and then working to falsify it.
I think that relativity may have never been realized if the intuition for a medium for light to travel through (in what was known as the luminiferous aether) had not been first tested for and falsified. It took Einstein to tell them that there is no medium for light, light is constant.
I think some people believe that the way to do science is to just say "I don't know" forever. About everything and to never have the courage to actually propose an idea that can turn out to be wrong. Science is a process that benefits from courage and intuition.
Here is the video I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV1ETmuV5ps
Crazy ideas like turtles all the way down.
Even Gods might be proposed.
All can be intuited and proposed and then we can work to falsify them and maybe a few turn out to be true or alter our understanding and upgrade our intuitions.
That step seems, to me, to be critical in science. using your intuition to imagine a particular outcome and then working to falsify it.
I think that relativity may have never been realized if the intuition for a medium for light to travel through (in what was known as the luminiferous aether) had not been first tested for and falsified. It took Einstein to tell them that there is no medium for light, light is constant.
I think some people believe that the way to do science is to just say "I don't know" forever. About everything and to never have the courage to actually propose an idea that can turn out to be wrong. Science is a process that benefits from courage and intuition.
Here is the video I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV1ETmuV5ps