Cammmpbell
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Every scientific theory must survive rigorous testing of its theorems and conclusions, the math must be checked and double checked.
A great book on how scientific discovery actually works is called Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruif. He goes over all the tests that Koch, Pastuer and Walter Reed did to prove their theories. The true mark of the scientists is he will go over every objection and make sure the objection has no place to stand before he tells the world his theory.
And even after it is proven correct, it is still tested tested tested. And errors are found and corrected. Newton turned physics on its head, but he had the numbers and facts to support him. Until Faraday came along and raised some new and interesting questions that no one had thought of before.
Does it mention the bible
This is the kind of bullshit Galileo had to contend with concerning his multiple theories which all have long since been proven and accepted. He was threatened with and accused of heresy and members of his family were actually accused and punished.
"The Council … maintains that the truths and rules [of the Gospel] are contained in the written books and in the unwritten traditions which, received by the Apostles from the mouth of Christ Himself or from the Apostles themselves, the Holy Spirit dictating, have come down to us, transmitted as it were from hand to hand. Following then the examples of the orthodox fathers, it receives and venerates with a feeling of equal piety and reverence both all the books of the Old and New Testaments, since one God is author of both, and also the traditions themselves, whether they relate to faith or to morals, as having been dictated either orally by Christ or by the Holy Spirit, and preserved in the Catholic Church in unbroken succession"
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