wow..so nothing in science is certain then...I was not aware of this.
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This one is infuriating. people thinking that not thinking that you might not be right makes you more right.
Besides, *despite* the humility and flexability of science there are concepts that stand strong because they are consistently observable from multiple perspectives. Evolution is one of them.
I'm sorry to say that the probablys and maybes you found in that paragraph on whether the bumpadumpasaurus was orange or blue are not tantamount to admission that dinosaurs might not have existed.
Or whatever other batshit you've been fed
The Standard Model already existed on paper. The finding of the Higgs-Boson last year by scientists via the Large Hadron Collider simply confirmed what was already known.
Not many gaps left. Just as the sun rising in the East - as per astronomical fact - every day is a certain ty, just as Galileo ultimately proved the RCC's Geocentric model wrong . By the fact that - only centuries later - the RCC had to admit that they were wrong, and Galileo was right . Another gap filled then.
'Theories'. As proven recently by the LHC, and in recent decades, re. Evolution, they have a rather nasty habit of becoming facts .
Depends on what you mean by 'certain.'
This distinction doesn't come up a lot in most science discussion as everyone knows how it works. It's very important, though, when creationists, for example, point to one or more aspects of science and try to pretend that it's 'just a theory.'
Everything's just a theory.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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