{"id":55291,"date":"2020-10-12T10:48:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55291"},"modified":"2020-10-12T10:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:48:54","slug":"todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-vii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55291","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VII"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VII<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Pompeii, Italy (1993) Photo by author<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ha! It\u2019s poetry in motion
\nNow she\u2019s making love to me
\nThe spheres are in commotion
\nThe elements in harmony
\nShe blinded me with science
\n(She blinded me with science!)
\nAnd hit me with technology
\n-Thomas Dolby, 1982 (She Blinded Me With Science<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Science, it turns outs, is a process not an answer. And, it usually has many answers from various sciences, each having their own methods and standards. When someone tells you, \u201cthe science says,\u201d be skeptical. They are usually being paid to say what they are about to say or at least have been thoroughly indoctrinated by others who are paid. There is never just one answer to any supposedly scientific question.
\n-Kurt Cobb (Why am I feeling so anxious? The end of modernism arrives<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Unfortunately, there are many other misconceptions about science. One of the most common misconceptions concerns the so-called \u201cscientific proofs.\u201d Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as a scientific proof\u2026all scientific knowledge is\u00a0tentative<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0provisional<\/em>, and nothing is final. There is no such thing as final proven knowledge in science. The currently accepted theory of a phenomenon is simply the best explanation for it\u00a0among all available alternatives<\/em>. Its status as the accepted theory is contingent on what other theories are available and might suddenly change tomorrow if there appears a better theory or new evidence that might challenge the accepted theory. No knowledge or theory (which embodies scientific knowledge) is final.
\n-Satoshi Kanazawa (Common Misconceptions About Science I: \u201cScientific Proof\u201d<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VII Pompeii, Italy (1993) Photo by author Ha! It\u2019s poetry in motion Now she\u2019s making love to me The spheres are in commotion The elements in harmony She blinded me with science (She blinded me with science!) And hit me with technology -Thomas Dolby, 1982 (She Blinded Me With Science) *** […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[150,24513,154,1101,2089,705,30412,5833],"class_list":["post-55291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-complex-society","tag-complexity","tag-olduvai","tag-proof","tag-science","tag-scientific-proof","tag-steve-bull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55292,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55291\/revisions\/55292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}