SCIENCE FOR BIBLE BELIEVERS

Introduction

Science

Scientific Faith

Experimental Validation

To explain what I mean by experimental validation, let me give you an example. Suppose you put a ball in your hand and then release it, and it falls to the ground. Then you pick up the ball and then release a second time, and again it falls to the ground. You do this a thousand times and the ball falls every time. Other scientists repeat the experiment and get the same result. However, without faith, you cannot know that the next time you do the experiment, the ball will not fly up. Just because that has never happened before, there’s no guarantee that it won’t happen. But the experimental validation principle says that you can now write a theory in the book of science that says every time you release a ball, it will fall to the ground.
The experimental validation principle states that, if you repeat an experiment many times and get the same result every time, then you can predict that whenever you do the same experiment in the future, you will get the same result. The experimental validation principle is not provably true. It is a matter of faith. But scientists apply it every time they add a theory to the book of science.

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