Luckily, I never do. It's an endless source of enjoyment for me. What is it, you ask? Why, it's the best subject of all: SCIENCE! Ain't nothing it can't do, give or take 100 years.
Now, I'm not a scientist. Of any kind. I did Physics 101 and Organic Chemistry 101 at university (and passed both) and that's really the extent of my practical science knowledge. However, I do know something that everybody should know, although a very small amount actually seem to. How science actually works.
You see, there's this thing called the scientific method. The way it works, in a nutshell, is this; every scientist hates every other scientist. They're perpetually in competition. If ever one scientist proposes a new theory or idea, every other scientist bands together to try and prove him wrong. Thing is, you have to be honest. If you're dishonest trying to prove or disprove something, they cut off your science dick. Ipso facto, if something does become accepted as the best theory for explaining anything, it's because, for the currently available data, it's really, really the way the world is. It stood up despite hordes of people smarter than you trying to disprove it.
This doesn't mean science is never wrong, but that's kinda the wrong way to look at it. People tend to view things as binaries, so ideas and theories get tacked as "right" or "wrong". Niels Bohr was "wrong", Einstein was "right" etc. Except, it's not really how it goes. Bohr's model accurately described the workings of the hydrogen atom, it's just inaccurate for every other element. Einstein's theory of relativity is accurate... over certain length scales. It falls apart when you talk about the very small or the very large. In terms of scientific theories, you can only really talk in terms of degrees of accuracy. As such, you can't really call the Intelligent Design movement "wrong" in a scientifically honest way. They've just made claims that very inaccurately reflect the nature of the world.
Sidenote: Truth isn't democratic, you retards. The next time someone tells me that something "may be true for you, but it's not for me" I might kill myself. This came up during a discussion on the Roman Empire; the tutor stated that new evidence indicated that the Roman Empire never fell, it just moved east and became the Byzantine Empire. This, she claimed, meant that history can change. Now, it was at this point, I chimed in, saying that history itself didn't change, just our understanding of it. My point was that the physical actions that constitute what happened at that point in time and space are the same now as they were before this new evidence came to light. Apparently this confused some people, who in turn insisted that, because our understanding has changed, so has history. To clear it up; history, defined as what was described on paper, has changed. History as what literally happened at that point in space and time did not. It never will. It's not a case of different truths for different people, it is the way it is and you can't change it.
I could go on for days about this, but it's getting ranty, so I'll just wrap up; the world is the way it is. Nothing you ever do, or say, or think, or believe, can ever change the physical laws and fundamental nature of reality. Science as a whole isn't prescriptive, it's descriptive. Two plus two doesn't equal four because we said so, we said so because it equals four. So before you preach to me about how science gets it wrong sometimes, stop and think; do you really think that changes the universe at all, ever? Less discussion, more investigation.
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