Repeated igorance so I will start recording this for prosperity and ease of reference:
31 July 2018 Dan1988: Ignorance that science making itself better is a problem
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A reason that science underpins the lifestyle that we enjoy is that science improves. We no longer use bloodletting to equalize "humors" to treat diseases. We have computers and the Internet
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Our understanding of the universe is advanced enough so that it is extremely hard to correct or invalidate much of "the whole of science". Any new scientific theory will want to reproduce the vast agreement with empirical evidence supporting existing theories. The best way to do that is to extend the existing theories. The new scientific theory will then reduce to the old theories in appropriate limits.
On the other hand there are specialized scientific theories that are overturned almost daily. QM itself is robust but the QM treatment of a system changes.
31 July 2018 Dan1988: A fantasy that God created the physical world in such a way that scientists cannot understand, etc.
Scientists understand how the "physical world" of the Earth and Solar System and galaxies were created. Scientists create specks of dust. There is no scientific evidence that the universe was created. The real physical world started in a hot dense state almost 14 billion years ago. We can describe that universe down to a very small time
31 July 2018 Dan1988: A fantasy that scientists have to be able to change how the universe works?
What scientists do is observe what the universe has to teach them and explain it using science and especially mathematics. They do not change how the universe works. They change the laws of physics to give an ever better approximation to how the universe works.