What if I believe the word, of someone who has been in outerspace and seen that the earth is a globe? Is that close enough to the source? Or is it more likely that he, and everyone else involved in that mission, were liars?
I understand what you are saying. That because -I- was not in space, I can't tell.
Well, Prove to me that you aren't in the matrix and that you aren't told that the world exists. Or that this forum isn't a figment of your imagination. Or that I can't read your mind.
It it might be a valid point, that we all have to take science we didn't do ourselves on faith. However, When the first photos of the earth were taken from orbit, there didn't exist graphics software like photoshop. I believe these photos, and all the people who have been into orbit since.
What you are saying is no different than if I asked you to prove germ theory. You can't. You can prove microscopic organisms exist, but you can't prove that inside a human body, they cause disease. You can say it is most likely, since those organisms are always present in someone with the disease and not in someone who doesn't have it. But it could be an ellaborate coincidence and really be caused by magic.
Or, maybe the organisms thrive on that evil magic, and that is why they are always present.
There is a reason they say the most simple answer is normally the right one. What people leave out is the part about it not just being the most simple, but the one that explains the most, or everything.
Science opperates on assumptions, and those are tested regularly. It could be, that some new theory in the future will explain more things, and one did. A while ago, we measured the earth's size and found that it isn't a perfect sphere. That it is actually a little bottom heavy. This explains some things with climate, sea currents, wind, and continental drift, that we couldn't really get a grip on before that.
I understand what you are saying. That because -I- was not in space, I can't tell.
Well, Prove to me that you aren't in the matrix and that you aren't told that the world exists. Or that this forum isn't a figment of your imagination. Or that I can't read your mind.
It it might be a valid point, that we all have to take science we didn't do ourselves on faith. However, When the first photos of the earth were taken from orbit, there didn't exist graphics software like photoshop. I believe these photos, and all the people who have been into orbit since.
What you are saying is no different than if I asked you to prove germ theory. You can't. You can prove microscopic organisms exist, but you can't prove that inside a human body, they cause disease. You can say it is most likely, since those organisms are always present in someone with the disease and not in someone who doesn't have it. But it could be an ellaborate coincidence and really be caused by magic.
Or, maybe the organisms thrive on that evil magic, and that is why they are always present.
There is a reason they say the most simple answer is normally the right one. What people leave out is the part about it not just being the most simple, but the one that explains the most, or everything.
Science opperates on assumptions, and those are tested regularly. It could be, that some new theory in the future will explain more things, and one did. A while ago, we measured the earth's size and found that it isn't a perfect sphere. That it is actually a little bottom heavy. This explains some things with climate, sea currents, wind, and continental drift, that we couldn't really get a grip on before that.