IsaacNewton
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The OP is just a bogus argument. In essence the argument is "science hasn't found out yet so it can't be true".
You can travel back in time 300 years and most of what we know today wasn't known. "There is no proof that creatures smaller than we can see are alive and swimming around in the water and in the air, so it can't be true". "Scientists can't prove that draining blood from a person harms them so it can't be true that it does and we should continue blood letting as a cure for illness". "Science hasn't found this so-called 'Higgs Boson' so their theories on the physics of the universe are wrong and can't be true".
Science on the cutting edge of the more complex things in nature is generally filled in by bits, and even when we don't have all the bits we know that even though we haven't discovered something there in the lab we still know it's there. The Higgs Boson is a good example. It is like there was a three legged table and we had only discovered two of the legs. But the table didn't tip over so we knew, even though we couldn't see the third leg, that it was in fact there. And it took almost 50 years but by new technology, the Large Hadron Collider, we have gained the evidence the Higgs particle is real. And science does not stop. More research into Higgs related particles, waves, or fields continues.
Isn't it utterly bizarre how human beings today are never satisfied with progress. If you showed the Wright Brother's plane to a person 300 years ago they'd think you a wizard. Or a television. Or a computer. Or the transplanting of human organs. Yet today people ignore these things as they ignore grass.
You can travel back in time 300 years and most of what we know today wasn't known. "There is no proof that creatures smaller than we can see are alive and swimming around in the water and in the air, so it can't be true". "Scientists can't prove that draining blood from a person harms them so it can't be true that it does and we should continue blood letting as a cure for illness". "Science hasn't found this so-called 'Higgs Boson' so their theories on the physics of the universe are wrong and can't be true".
Science on the cutting edge of the more complex things in nature is generally filled in by bits, and even when we don't have all the bits we know that even though we haven't discovered something there in the lab we still know it's there. The Higgs Boson is a good example. It is like there was a three legged table and we had only discovered two of the legs. But the table didn't tip over so we knew, even though we couldn't see the third leg, that it was in fact there. And it took almost 50 years but by new technology, the Large Hadron Collider, we have gained the evidence the Higgs particle is real. And science does not stop. More research into Higgs related particles, waves, or fields continues.
Isn't it utterly bizarre how human beings today are never satisfied with progress. If you showed the Wright Brother's plane to a person 300 years ago they'd think you a wizard. Or a television. Or a computer. Or the transplanting of human organs. Yet today people ignore these things as they ignore grass.