Science People who reject the theory of human evolution tend to have more bigoted attitudes

Call it whatever you want. Fact is most scientific theories are eventually disproven, no matter how widely accepted (because generally people are intellectually lazy).

Here's a few:

10 Most Famous Scientific Theories That Were Later Debunked
By Scientist

The most genuine merit of science is probably its readiness to admit its mistakes (usually!). The theories in science are always being reconsidered and scrutinized. Modern research often rejects old ideas, hoaxes and myths.

Today’s post on our Science Blog will discuss ten of the most popular and influential scientific discoveries that were based on dubious data, and were consequently proven wrong, debunked and replaced with more reliable and logical modern theories.

1- Fleischmann–Pons’s Nuclear Fusion


Cold fusion is a supposed kind of nuclear reaction that would occur at relatively low temperatures compared with hot fusion. As a new type of nuclear reaction, it gained much popularity after reports in 1989 by famous electrochemists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann. The craze about cold fusion became weaker as other scientists, after trying to repeat the experiment, failed to get similar results.

1a – One of Modern Science’s Greatest Misconceptions
The misconception that mass is destroyed in nuclear reactions.



2- Phrenology


Now widely considered as a pseudoscience, phrenology was the study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties. Modern scientific research wiped it out by proving that personality traits could not be traced to specific portions of the brain.

3- The Blank Slate


The Blank Slate theory (or Tabula rasa), widely popularized by John Locke in 1689, proposed that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception. Modern research suggests that genes and other family traits inherited from birth, along with innate instincts of course, also play a very important role.

4- Luminiferous Aether


The aether (or ether) was a mysterious substance that was thought to transmit light through the universe. The idea of a luminiferous aether was debunked as experiments in the diffraction and refraction of light, and later Einstein’s special theory of relativity, came along and entirely revolutionized physics.

5- Einstein’s Static (or Stationary) Universe


A static universe, also called a “stationary” or “Einstein” universe, was a model proposed by Albert Einstein in 1917. It was problematic from the beginning. Edwin Hubble’s discovery of the relationship between red shift obliterated it by completely demonstrating that the universe is constantly expanding.

6- Martian Canals


The Martian canals were a network of gullies and ravines that some 19th century scientists erroneously thought to exist on Mars. First detected in 1877 by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, modern telescopes and imaging technology completely debunked the myth. The “canals” were actually found to be a mere optical illusion.

7- Phlogiston Theory


First postulated in 1667 by German physician Johann Joachim Becher, Phlogiston Theory is an obsolete scientific theory regarding the existence of “phlogiston”, a fire-like element, which was contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion. The theory tried to explain burning processes such as combustion and the rusting of metals, which are now jointly termed as “oxidation”.

8- The Expanding or Growing Earth


The Expanding Earth or Growing Earth is a hypothesis suggesting that the position and relative movement of continents is dependent on the volume of the Earth increasing. Modern science has turned down any expansion or contraction of the Earth.

9- Discovery of the Planet Vulcan


A small planet that was supposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun, French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier coined the name “Vulcan” while trying to explain the nature of Mercury’s orbit. No such planet was ever discovered, while the orbit of Mercury was explained in detail by Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

10- Spontaneous (or Equivocal) Generation


Spontaneous generation or equivocal generation is an obsolete principle concerning the origin of life from inanimate matter. The hypothesis was brought out by Aristotle who advocated the work of earlier natural philosophers. It was proven wrong in the 19th century by the experiments of Louis Pasteur, drawing influence from Francesco Redi who was an early proponent of germ theory and cell theory.

 

The rampant racism and race-baiting of the article and most posts in here aside, as a biologist you should know that PROVEN science is accepted almost universally by all races of people, and UNPROVEN science THEORIES are considered and some are acknowledged as "likely", but not "accepted as fact" by anyone but the most gullible or pliable people.

Just throwing around the word science the way you do strongly implies you don't know what science is.

 

I guess point proven.

 

And that's a fact!

My favorite sax player.

 

If you knew anything about Einstein's Theory of Evolution you would have gotten the obvious joke.

This is like shooting fish in a barrel.

 

I'm gonna follow Lanny's lead and refrain from clicking on blind links.

 

You just did a lot of talking about stuff that doesn't relate to this thread. Good job.

You're probably right about where people came from...

 

The Great Race of Yith, the Elder Things, and the Mi-Go visited this world in ages so long ago that your sanity would splinter if you even tried to comprhend it. For reasons no human mind could ever understand, they created and maipulated teran life to evolve into humans. Were you created or evolved, neither, or both?

That insane tittering you hear is the nuclear chaos at the heart of a universe that is incapable of caring any less. If it even noticed your existence, you would be nothing but the briefest of amusement.

 

Actual scientists write in peer reviewed journals and sign their names. They don't post uninformed screeds anonymously in blogs. The blog Maris copied and pasted was not written by a scientist. Most of the so called theories disproven in the blog were never theories. They were prescientific ideas, fringe beliefs, or in the case of cold fusion, intriguing ideas that were quickly shown to be mistaken when no one could duplicate results. And obviously none of that had any bearing on evolution by natural selection, which has stood the test of time, and been verified in thousands of peer reviewed studies.

 

It's almost like the scientific method works...

 

I don’t know what I believe, there are things science can explain and things it can’t. This “study” did a poor job of mutually excluding these two personality traits though. All Muslims are terrorists too, right guys? It’s really not surprising to me though that an atheist wrote a politically-motivated paper outlining how “that group over there” is racist, basically putting their own intolerance for an entire group on display. Ironic. The pile-on in this thread is a further exhibition of this.
Also interesting that many of the same people educating us on the virtues of science with noses held high are the same ones telling us there are more than two genders or gender is fluid.

 

If you don’t have a coherent response outside of attacking someone’s character, you actually don’t have to type anything. It’s easier that way and it saves everyone time.

 

Oh man this study was so bad it’s not even funny. Talk about word vomit. The author just wants to sound smart. Derp.

 

You’ll have to excuse my hormones, I’m pregnant.