Some models are good. Some models are bad.
Models on runways sampling the latest in feminine yet Christian clothing? Good.
Models that predict massive climate change used to justify people hating economic policies that turn out to be completely false? Bad. Bad models.
So, all y’all have heard about all the terrible ice melting going on in the Antarctic right? You know, temperatures are so high due to all those light bulbs and 17 ounce drinks that the ice shelves just can’t take it no mores. You know those studies, right?
Well, it turns out that all those studies weren’t the kind of studies where people actual go study stuff. They were the kind of studies in which people knew what kind of outcome they wanted and built these little models (computer models, not the good paper mache or the Sports Illustrated kind) that gave them the results they wanted.
But then some scientists went and did a silly and very unscientific thing. They actually went to Antarctica and measured the ice and the water temps. Turns out, the water temps and the ice are completely stable. It is not warming or melting after all.
Phew. What a relief. Based on those models, I was about to support massive wealth redistribution and barbaric family planning practices in order to save Mamaa Gaia. I am glad somebody actually went and checked it before it was too late.
So can we have our light bulbs and our big families back now?
June 26, 2012 at 3:00 pm
The willingness of people to believe in theories that have never been put to a real test as gospel truth never ceases to amaze me. Evolution is the major theory in our times that the outcome is predetermined and models are built to give them the results they want. One only has to look at charts showing birds developing from reptiles or man evolving from apes to see this desire for predetermined results. Never mind that God created everything by his own hands, and after it's own kind, thus making macro-evolution impossible. (Micro-evolution aka mutation is possible, but it can not change one species into another. It can only cause a change in a species, not change one species into another one.) Also, it's impossible to test the theory to see if it can be falsified. No one has even seen one species change into another, indeed, how could they, since evolution takes place over thousands and millions of years? Yet, that doesn't stop the atheistic and theistic evolutionist from building their models or believing in evolution. Don't confuse them with the facts, their minds are already made up.
June 28, 2012 at 12:17 am
Birds didn't evolve from reptiles; they are dinosaurs. Which aren't reptiles either.
But theories aren't tested, and are not subject to falsifiability—those are hypotheses. Theories are explanatory paradigms put forth to account for phenomena; they're only abandoned when a phenomenon occurs for which they cannot account.
Gravity and radioactive decay are phenomena. Newtonian physics is a theory. It was abandoned in favor of relativity and quantum mechanics when it couldn't account for certain observations, like wave-particle duality.