Scientists must be really clever people.

Dec 12, 2018 3:31:47 GMT Farside said:

Since no one's ever seen a dinosaur and yet they know when they lived, how their bones fit together and which were around during the same time. They even know that a asteroid killed them all even though no one was around to witness it.

Also no one's ever been to any other planet, and yet they know which ones don't contain life in our solar system, and some how they know Venus is acidic even though no one's been there.

I'm telling you, that's clever.

This is actually for everyone on this thread...

The conclusions that scientists come to are based on educated guesses. Guesses, yes, but educated, which is better than "faith". Faith means you believe in something without proof. Science means you believe in something after you've made several experiments to determine whether you're right or wrong.

If you've run experiments and it turns out you're correct in your theory you can show your facts and figures to anyone in the world and if they do the same experiments they will come to the same conclusion. Thus proving the correctness. If two separate teams of scientists add 2 +2 both teams will always = 4. ALWAYS.

If you're wrong you admit that your theory and experiment didn't add up. And then you try another experiment to see if that one is correct. You do this until you determine what is correct, or you give up and accept that you don't know how to prove your theory. That has actually happened a lot in science. Either theories have been proven by independent study, or disproven, or the search for the answer continues with many different theories and studies.

There's no "making shit up" about it.

Of course, no one has even SEEN a Dinosaur, but we have SEEN and handled the bones, and we've run experiments on those to determine certain facts. Carbon dating is a thing that tells us how old something is. And then from that we determine other facts. And so on and so on. Theories, experiments and facts or disproven facts building upon one another.

How do we know a meteor hit the Earth so long ago? Actually we DONT KNOW that, and NO ONE said they know that for sure. Its just the leading theory. That's what's missing from some of the comments being posted here: That no one is saying they know for sure 100% that they know these things. There are leading theories based on other previously established facts and continuing experiments.

But why is that the leading theory? Apparently at a certain depth beneath the ground of that part of the world is a mineral that is SO rare everywhere else that the only logical conclusion is that it came from a meteor strike. That was determined after an experiment was conducted. Separate teams from around the world with no reason to lie (since they gain nothing by doing so) have agreed on this. By the time we learn of something in the general public lots and lots of scientific teams, mostly NOT working in connection with on another, have determined whether or not a theory is even possible, much less reasonable.

No one's been to another planet. True. But probes have been sent, which run experiments and send back information. And it doesn't take a genius to know that the a planet that is 100 times colder than anything on Earth probably doesn't have life since everything we already know tells us a certain biosphere is needed, one which is missing at that temperature. And again, NO ONE has actually said they KNOW for sure that there is NO LIFE on other planets in our solar system. In fact they believe its quite possible that there are some places that may very well have life. Europa is a good example. Microbial life is another example.

Climate change: Just because its incredibly slow does not mean that it cannot be detected and quantified. It just means that the experiments to do so will take much longer to do. For example a photographic study of ice shelves across the world has shown that clearly visible tons of ice are missing every year. That is an example of slowly increasing temperatures. Slow enough for us not to "feel' it in our bodies, but fast enough that it's affecting the ice shelves.

I'm hearing a lot of insinuations of "how could they know that? Are they making it up?" in this thread. This is made up of ignorance of the facts and overlooking or misinterpreting other facts.

No, they come up with a theory/ a question, and then run an experiment, which gives them some facts, and then they extrapolate and build on that, and so on...They're not just making shit up. As a matter of fact scientists are highly offended and turn on each other very sharply when they find out that someone "made something up".

2 + 2 will always = 4. Always. I don't need faith to tell me that. I run the experiment 2 + 2 and guess what? It = 4. And if I ask a Bedouin in Arabia or Chilean near the south pole what 2 + 2 is he/she will tell me 4.

So yes, they're clever. Being in denial of science makes you dumb. Instead, why don't you go out and actually find out WHY they believe what they believe. Do that first and then you can dispute it. At that point you'll be making an "educated" guess, as opposed to an "uninformed" conclusion. You'll also be able to make posts about whether or not they claim to know things you think they do, but they really don't.