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Science is not a belief system, it's a method of verifying beliefs and turning them into knowledge.



Is the practice of science fixed? Do scientists use, unwaveringly, the methods of their predecessors? Why do the methods and practices of science vary over time?


I fail to see the relevance of any of your questions to the topic at hand, so rather than playing the Socratic method, how about you just lay out your argument.


Methods vary in philosophy, in science they improve.


I can hear the pattering of tiny feet on the heads of pins....




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