Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?
Originally Posted by
Surfermom
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On the tails of a worthy thread started by Bratti..,
I have a friend who is very well-educated and works in a scientific field. He told me once
that if it can't be proven, then it isn't worth thinking about or debating - it's just all hogwash.
Do you tend to agree or disagree?
What, if anything can't be proven?
Are such things worth contemplating and discussing?
(Off to buy energy sources to put on the dinner table tonight
).
......... if it can't be proven
at the present time!- qualifying statement.
That applies to so many theories over centuries. If they had just been discarded, we wouldn't have progressed.
All ideas should be discussed; proven or not, all ideas are valid points of discussion.
The minute we close our minds to alternative viewpoints, we are doomed!
Of course, scientific proof is the ultimate goal, but then even scientific proof is dependent on the level of knowledge at the time. Just ask Galileo!
And, if I understand it correctly, even our current level of understanding of quantum physics is based solely on theory, rather than on absolute proof.
(Feel free to shoot that down in flames, as I am no scientist, but am just going by what I have read and heard over the years).