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Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« on: January 05, 2011, 02:05:21 PM »
I come on this forum about once a year and ask some version of the following question. Each time I hope that a FE person will come with an intelligent, well though answer. So far, nobody has even attempted to address my question. Please don't continue to disappoint me FE people!


The steps of the simplified scientific method are as such:
1) ask a question.
2) develop a method to test that question with conditions for success and failure.
3) perform the test and interpret the results
4) develop a general, predictive theory based on your observations.

ALL credible, widely accepted scientific theories have satisfied steps 1-3 dozens or hundreds of times, and have one or several statements compatible with step 4.

The FE hypothesis has satisfied step 1... ONLY step 1. Please FE people: try out steps 2 and 3 for me. Don't even worry about step 4: I mean, the majority of scientific inquiries end at step 3. But, FE people... you have to get past step 1!!!
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2011, 09:43:03 PM »
Quote from: pestcontrol on January 05, 2011, 02:05:21 PM
I come on this forum about once a year and ask some version of the following question. Each time I hope that a FE person will come with an intelligent, well though answer. So far, nobody has even attempted to address my question. Please don't continue to disappoint me FE people!


The steps of the simplified scientific method are as such:
1) ask a question.
2) develop a method to test that question with conditions for success and failure.
3) perform the test and interpret the results
4) develop a general, predictive theory based on your observations.

ALL credible, widely accepted scientific theories have satisfied steps 1-3 dozens or hundreds of times, and have one or several statements compatible with step 4.

The FE hypothesis has satisfied step 1... ONLY step 1. Please FE people: try out steps 2 and 3 for me. Don't even worry about step 4: I mean, the majority of scientific inquiries end at step 3. But, FE people... you have to get past step 1!!!
The scientific method is bunk.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2011, 12:22:28 AM »
Quote from: John Davis on January 05, 2011, 09:43:03 PM
The scientific method is bunk.

The scientific method is responsible for our understanding of the world today. Without the scientific method we would not understand quantum mechanics ergo microprocessors would be impossible to produce ergo your ridiculously misinformed accusation of the 'bunkness' of the scientific method would be read by nobody because the internet would not exist.

Scientific method is responsible for:
Computers/electronics
Medicine
Modern transportation
Material science (plastic anybody?)
innumerable other modern wonders

Mysticism and superstition is responsible for:
The dark ages
the practice of draining blood to cure illness
belief in spontaneous generation

Rather than prove how uninformed you are by making a pattently false claim. Please address my question.

Alternatively to addressing my question you can just admit that your convictions are based in blind faith. Admit that given irrefutable evidence* to the contrary of your belief you would still believe in a flat earth due to some blind/misinformed/contrarian internal bias that prohibits your brain from accepting the truth.



*(plenty examples of this evidence exist and many have been posted in this forum)
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2011, 09:59:16 AM »
Quote from: pestcontrol on January 06, 2011, 12:22:28 AM
Quote from: John Davis on January 05, 2011, 09:43:03 PM
The scientific method is bunk.

The scientific method is responsible for our understanding of the world today. Without the scientific method we would not understand quantum mechanics ergo microprocessors would be impossible to produce ergo your ridiculously misinformed accusation of the 'bunkness' of the scientific method would be read by nobody because the internet would not exist.

Scientific method is responsible for:
Computers/electronics
Medicine
Modern transportation
Material science (plastic anybody?)
innumerable other modern wonders

The scientific method is not responsible for those.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2011, 10:57:50 AM »
Why is the Scientific Method so bad?  Why is it unsuitable for FET, when it works successfully for everyone else?
It is an internationally accepted method, to show one has thought about the question at hand, and experimented to test the hypothesis.

I would appreciate an answer to these, and for you to cease evading the question in the OP.

Quote from: Ichimaru Gin :] on January 06, 2011, 09:59:16 AM
Quote from: pestcontrol on January 06, 2011, 12:22:28 AM
Quote from: John Davis on January 05, 2011, 09:43:03 PM
The scientific method is bunk.

The scientific method is responsible for our understanding of the world today. Without the scientific method we would not understand quantum mechanics ergo microprocessors would be impossible to produce ergo your ridiculously misinformed accusation of the 'bunkness' of the scientific method would be read by nobody because the internet would not exist.

Scientific method is responsible for:
Computers/electronics
Medicine
Modern transportation
Material science (plastic anybody?)
innumerable other modern wonders

The scientific method is not responsible for those.

I suspect what was meant was, the scientific method was used to produce computers, medicine, etc.  Not the scientific method is directly responsible for creating those things.  Let us not be so picky.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2011, 11:36:22 AM »
Quote from: Ichimaru Gin :] on January 06, 2011, 09:59:16 AM
Quote from: pestcontrol on January 06, 2011, 12:22:28 AM
Quote from: John Davis on January 05, 2011, 09:43:03 PM
The scientific method is bunk.

The scientific method is responsible for our understanding of the world today. Without the scientific method we would not understand quantum mechanics ergo microprocessors would be impossible to produce ergo your ridiculously misinformed accusation of the 'bunkness' of the scientific method would be read by nobody because the internet would not exist.

Scientific method is responsible for:
Computers/electronics
Medicine
Modern transportation
Material science (plastic anybody?)
innumerable other modern wonders

The scientific method is not responsible for those.
Maybe those are a bit too obvious. Here's a short list of things the scientific method is responsible for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_experiments
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2011, 12:08:44 PM »
Quote from: John Davis on January 05, 2011, 09:43:03 PM
Quote from: pestcontrol on January 05, 2011, 02:05:21 PM
I come on this forum about once a year and ask some version of the following question. Each time I hope that a FE person will come with an intelligent, well though answer. So far, nobody has even attempted to address my question. Please don't continue to disappoint me FE people!


The steps of the simplified scientific method are as such:
1) ask a question.
2) develop a method to test that question with conditions for success and failure.
3) perform the test and interpret the results
4) develop a general, predictive theory based on your observations.

ALL credible, widely accepted scientific theories have satisfied steps 1-3 dozens or hundreds of times, and have one or several statements compatible with step 4.

The FE hypothesis has satisfied step 1... ONLY step 1. Please FE people: try out steps 2 and 3 for me. Don't even worry about step 4: I mean, the majority of scientific inquiries end at step 3. But, FE people... you have to get past step 1!!!
The scientific method is bunker.

So.. the practice of experimentation to prove ideas is stupid? I suppose we must disregard Rowbotham's work then.
« Last Edit: January 06, 2011, 12:17:49 PM by doyh »
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2011, 01:28:54 PM »
Quote from: pestcontrol on January 06, 2011, 12:22:28 AM
Quote from: John Davis on January 05, 2011, 09:43:03 PM
The scientific method is bunk.



Mysticism and superstition is responsible for:
The dark ages

Read a book on the period immediately following the Fall of Rome and try that point again.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2011, 08:31:26 PM »
Quote from: Ichimaru Gin :] on January 06, 2011, 09:59:16 AM
Quote from: pestcontrol on January 06, 2011, 12:22:28 AM
Quote from: John Davis on January 05, 2011, 09:43:03 PM
The scientific method is bunk.

The scientific method is responsible for our understanding of the world today. Without the scientific method we would not understand quantum mechanics ergo microprocessors would be impossible to produce ergo your ridiculously misinformed accusation of the 'bunkness' of the scientific method would be read by nobody because the internet would not exist.

Scientific method is responsible for:
Computers/electronics
Medicine
Modern transportation
Material science (plastic anybody?)
innumerable other modern wonders

The scientific method is not responsible for those.

And may I ask what the differences are between the scientific method and how you planned and executed your moonlight experiments?

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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2011, 12:05:38 AM »
Notice how everything we know and accept were because of the scientific method? Everything TFES has come up with is debunked day in and out out and are done with the Zetetic Method. It's kind of funny of TFES still holds on to this even though there is no validity to it.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2011, 09:45:31 AM »
Quote from: John Davis on January 05, 2011, 09:43:03 PM
The scientific method is bunk.

And why is that?
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2011, 05:06:43 PM »
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Here's a short list of things the scientific method is responsible for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_experiments

*Ahem*...
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2011, 01:56:07 AM »
But guys the scientific method is bunk because FET is not compatible with it obviously we must disregard it.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2011, 02:22:03 AM »
I'm sorry, but mysticism and superstition are responsible for:
Bronze & iron tools
The wheel
Agriculture
The domestication of animals
Clothing
Fire use

Those are pretty central to our lives.
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« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2011, 03:24:35 AM »
Those are very basic things. More advanced technology came about with the use of the Scientific method.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2011, 06:35:34 AM »
Quote from: James on January 14, 2011, 02:22:03 AM
I'm sorry, but mysticism and superstition are responsible for:
Bronze & iron tools
The wheel
Agriculture
The domestication of animals
Clothing
Fire use

Those are pretty central to our lives.

Proof?  Something to back up those claims?

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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2011, 06:50:24 AM »
Quote from: IOA on January 14, 2011, 03:24:35 AM
Those are very basic things. More advanced technology came about with the use of the Scientific method.

How do you think your life would be without agriculture?
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #20 on: January 14, 2011, 07:55:03 AM »
James never provides anything but his own words to back up his claims, you should know this by now.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #21 on: January 14, 2011, 11:33:21 AM »
Quote from: James on January 14, 2011, 06:50:24 AM
Quote from: IOA on January 14, 2011, 03:24:35 AM
Those are very basic things. More advanced technology came about with the use of the Scientific method.

How do you think your life would be without agriculture?
I do appreciate agriculture, but science and technology have brought much better things.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #22 on: January 14, 2011, 12:54:00 PM »
Quote from: IOA on January 14, 2011, 11:33:21 AM
Quote from: James on January 14, 2011, 06:50:24 AM
Quote from: IOA on January 14, 2011, 03:24:35 AM
Those are very basic things. More advanced technology came about with the use of the Scientific method.

How do you think your life would be without agriculture?
I do appreciate agriculture, but science and technology have brought much better things.
Including significant advances in agriculture.
http://www.satimagingcorp.com/svc/agriculture.html
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« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2011, 04:13:56 AM »
Quote from: James on January 14, 2011, 06:50:24 AM
Quote from: IOA on January 14, 2011, 03:24:35 AM
Those are very basic things. More advanced technology came about with the use of the Scientific method.

How do you think your life would be without agriculture?

Irrelevant.  Those things you listed came about through accidents, experimentation, or curiosity; not "mysticism and superstition."
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« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2011, 11:13:00 AM »
Quote from: Hessy on January 20, 2011, 04:13:56 AM
Irrelevant.  Those things you listed came about through accidents, experimentation, or curiosity; not "mysticism and superstition."

How do you know? Where is your evidence for this brazen assertion. What's that, you don't have any?
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2011, 11:30:34 AM »
Quote from: James on January 20, 2011, 11:13:00 AM
Quote from: Hessy on January 20, 2011, 04:13:56 AM
Irrelevant.  Those things you listed came about through accidents, experimentation, or curiosity; not "mysticism and superstition."

How do you know? Where is your evidence for this brazen assertion. What's that, you don't have any?

When did you start caring about evidence for assertions?
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« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2011, 12:42:39 PM »
He dreamt about it, James.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2011, 02:18:53 PM »
Actually, James is right, albeit in a profoundly stupid way. All if those things wee discovered in a way that could be considered zetetic.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #28 on: January 24, 2011, 01:55:43 PM »
It seems pretty simple. No matter what, nobody can possibly know how all those ancient concepts got invented unless they could actually go back in time and check, all of you are making assumptions, which can never be taken for fact.

We do however know what the scientific method has achieved, because it has been documented.

The best you can wring out of this one is we don't know what the Zetetic method, Mysticism or Superstition are responsible for. Logic implies that it is accidents and experiments that achieved those things, but we cannot know for sure, so it's a null matter.

We do however know what the scientific method has achieved for humanity through time, and it has time and again been proven to work.

I'll take it as a concession of defeat from the FEr's if they fail to come up with a logical, step by step explanation of why the scientific method does not work well enough for them to validate the FET.
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Re: Use of the scientific method to prove the flat earth hypothesis.
« Reply #29 on: January 24, 2011, 02:00:28 PM »
Just to be clear, the Zetetic method is completely different from Mysticism and Superstition - I just felt you were being unfair to Mysticism and Superstition, which have produced many technologies which we still use today.
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