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Message: <blockquote data-quote="djHiran" data-source="post: 12333267" data-attributes="member: 6429">If "do it and verify" type arguments are not sound to you, you are admitting that science is not sound too. A scientific theory differ from a myth only because it is testable. But one thing, scientific theory is not asking to "do it somehow and verify". It states something in addition: the recipe to prepare the dish.I exclude Buddhism from religion, i.e. pure myth, only because that testability of explicitly stated recipe.And I must state this: a good theory is good only because it is testable. Verifying it billion times is not going to prove it. Verification can only lead to increased confidence on it. On the other hand, verifying that one theory fails even once is going to disprove it completely. So I think "do it and verify" type arguments are the best we have in science. Ultimately that's how we cope with physical reality.</blockquote>

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