Consider religious texts as 100% true and interpreted literally
Consider religious texts as 100% true and interpreted literally
We have countries filled with those people and (true to their religious texts' requirement) try to shove their religion down everyone in the world's throats. And they have bombs.
Q: How do you debunk people that does not believe in experimental facts?
A: You can't.
Q: How do you debunk people that does not believe in experimental facts?
A: You can't.+1
And you stay away from them or the subject matter of discussion.
Consider religious texts as 100% true and interpreted literallyWe have countries filled with those people and (true to their religious texts' requirement) try to shove their religion down everyone in the world's throats. And they have bombs.
yet continues to honestly believe that the world is a few thousand years old
He doesn't honestly believe it.
What has happened is his brain is divided into different compartments, the scientific compartment and the religious compartment. When he argues for a young earth he is voicing the agenda of the religious compartment and suppressing the agenda of the scientific compartment. It has to be understood that most people, most of the time, have an agenda, and what they say is driven by their personal agenda. There is nearly nobody who speaks impartially, based on a purely rational assessment of the situation.
The American military did not believe that they would need to compensate for relativity when they commissioned the GPS constallation. They (reluctantly) encorperated a method of compensation with the assumption that they wouldn't have to turn it on. After finding that the position was wandering by about 10km a day it was turned on and the problem went away.
Q: How do you debunk people that does not believe in experimental facts?
A: You can't.
>"who believes that the pharmaceutical industry cover up all sorts of alternative medicines because they can't make money from them"
I could give you a lot of examples of treatments that exist for common health issues which aren't at all well known because they work and are cheap.
Example, resveratrol for joints/disc/back pain and arthritis
It actually helps repair joints.
With respect, you know about it, Google knows about it, it's dirt cheap and available over the net without a prescription, it's even been talked about on Oprah, it's not exactly the cover up of the century is it...
Anyway, I can see this subject won't go anywhere but downhill so I'm bowing out gracefully.
The American military did not believe that they would need to compensate for relativity when they commissioned the GPS constallation. They (reluctantly) encorperated a method of compensation with the assumption that they wouldn't have to turn it on. After finding that the position was wandering by about 10km a day it was turned on and the problem went away.This is an widely spread myth. GPS was one of the things which finally proved that GR explains reality very well. Without solid experimental evidence to base their design on, and with making relativistic compensation so cheap and easy to switch in and out, it made perfect sense to make it selectable. Of course, now that evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates the veracity of GR, nobody sane would build a navigation system which doesn't bring it into the calculations.
I've said it before on this forum but it's worth repeating: Just because science is uncertain about many things, does not mean it is uncertain about everything.
[ Sadly, he will generally return to his default state once you stop.
Part of this is admitting that there are few if any "facts". Just good explanations. And all of our explanations have holes and hand waving in them. Currently the biggest and most obvious include dark matter and dark energy.
Many things that people pound on desks about as science are not as robust as we would like. Climate science is a perfect example. Climate is being predicted decades and centuries into the future. While most of those creating and studying these models do not do this, many others regard these predictions as delivered fact.
How many of you would trust an unverified Spice model of a circuit? Spice is far more mature, and the circuits you can model with Spice are far simpler and better understood than the climate.
None of this may help in convincing someone who doesn't listen to facts, but accepting that truth is hard to obtain and that you may not have perfection on your side can help in discussions with those of different views.
Also something like operational calculus have not been here too long, actually my grandparents were born before it were scientifically accepted if I have understood correctly. While this is not a science either but a normal polar representation of complex number as |r| L angle weren't mainstream not until like ww2. Science is usually right.
Also something like operational calculus have not been here too long, actually my grandparents were born before it were scientifically accepted if I have understood correctly. While this is not a science either but a normal polar representation of complex number as |r| L angle weren't mainstream not until like ww2. Science is usually right.
Errm, Calculus was devised independently by Gottfried Leibniz (b 1646, d 1716) and Issac Newton (b 1642, d 1726) so you must have very, very old grandparents! Complex analysis has been around since at least 1545.
Also something like operational calculus have not been here too long, actually my grandparents were born before it were scientifically accepted if I have understood correctly. While this is not a science either but a normal polar representation of complex number as |r| L angle weren't mainstream not until like ww2. Science is usually right.
Errm, Calculus was devised independently by Gottfried Leibniz (b 1646, d 1716) and Issac Newton (b 1642, d 1726) so you must have very, very old grandparents! Complex analysis has been around since at least 1545.Not operational calculus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_calculus and not polar representation with |r| L angle notation of complex number (|r|e^i*angle before it) weren't widely adapted not until of somewhere ww2 time period (atleast on electrical sciences).