Prove it!

In the 18^th century, a bunch of interested people got together in Copenhagen to figure out the meaning and purpose of Science. They had all dimly realised that a new way of looking at the world had emerged, but needed to talk to each other to figure that out.

The problem was this; they had started to use experimentation on things, and were getting results that were different from the usual philosophical, political and religious ones. As a result they needed to know how or even what, this all meant. Had they found new truth?

The emerging ideas were not fitting into accepted forms of thinking. Indeed up to then, philosophic and religious thinking was all there was, and to go against that was a kind of blasphemy. So you can understand that these new thinkers needed to form a guild for strength support, and respect.

They called themselves Scientists. And they decided to be only interested in the material things that would yield to experimentation, and leave the rest to philosophy and religion and so forth. All to the good, and yet a weird thing has happened in the ensuing years, and it is this…,

Anything today that cannot be scientifically proven, is considered not to be true or even real. It was never meant that way. In fact quite the opposite.

Scientists understood that they, with their emerging techno tools of scientific investigation, could only work on things where the method worked. Science never sought to negate the realness of things, because of testing problems.

Today people think that if a thing can’t be scientifically experimented on, it must therefore be proof of its falseness. And this is one of the greatest falsehoods of all time.

Science has to limit it’s view to what it can see. But now, we use that partial blindness offensively, like a person who is long and short sighted, declaiming …”If I can’t see it, it doesn’t exist”. Utter madness.

So if someone says to you….Prove it, tell em to stop being silly and get scientific. Tell them that scientific validation of the truth of things is terrific, but limited to the kind of things that can be experimented on…and not one drop more.

Paul