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Drinkup4 18 points ago +19 / -1

It is almost as if science can't predict crap about the future. They are pretty good at explaining the past, but have no idea how to correct for all the variables involved in predicting the future.

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TripleBlack 4 points ago +4 / -0

It's not science making these predictions.

It's power hungry people using selective facts to push an agenda onto an uninformed population under the fake authority of 'science'.

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DisbandTheCIA 3 points ago +3 / -0

No way to prove them wrong about the past not like it’s coming back around in time.

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Drinkup4 4 points ago +4 / -0

I think scientist have learned and predicted some amazing things. But not the future. They can predict that certain particles that are hypothesized actually exist or that you can tell a star has planets around it because their gravity creates a wobble in the star. Those are great predictions but that is not the future. Those are predicting something exists then proving it.

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VetforTrump 2 points ago +2 / -0

Also we are not obligated to accept their version of science. You have brains, you can learn the world around you without their dialogue.

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VetforTrump 2 points ago +2 / -0

Half of science is theory, the other half fantasy. They lie more then they'll admit.

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FragrantDude -1 points ago +2 / -3

It is almost as if science can't predict crap about the future.

What do you mean, that's the literally the intended purpose of scientific knowledge. I'd even go so far as to say if a piece of scientific understanding doesn't have predictive value, it's probably useless. Even archaeology gives us insight into where we've been, thereby giving us some sort of indication of where we might be heading into the future.

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dixond 3 points ago +4 / -1

No, the scientific method allows us to predict the outcome given a very specific and controlled set of circumstances. It doesn't allow us 'predict the future' in any meaningful sense of the phrase.

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle means we can never reach a stage of perfect prediction, because we can never simultaneously know all the things that we'd need to know to predict it.

Finally, the entire scientific method is built on the non-falsifiable hypothesis that the underpinning mechanisms of the Universe are, and will remain, predictable.

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wehavetogoback 0 points ago +1 / -1

do you even know what that principle applies to? you're making us look like idiots.

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dixond 3 points ago +3 / -0

Excuse me, but I do.

I'm talking about the fundamentals of the way the Universe is actually wired up. You can't predict the future in any meaningful way; science tells us the exact opposite of "predict the future". As I specifically described: "the scientific method allows us to predict the outcome given a very specific and controlled set of circumstances". The only people making us "look like idiots" are the ones trying to tell people that 'science can predict the future'. It can't.