Scientists don't believe in magic but don't realize original scientists practice alchemy which involved magic/witchcraft?
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reflectingmonkey · 51-55, M
most people educated in science are fully aware of the history of science and that some of its basic principles date from a time when chemistry included some esoteric principles. but this is inconsequential to a scientist because the principle behind modern science is that it is not a belief system, its a method of collecting data and establishing according to this data theories that have the greatest degree of aplicability. because of this science has this wonderful ability to self-correct itself. if someone comes along and shows with a scientific experiement that a certain theory has flaws, science auto-corrects itself and comes up with a new theory which will include this new fact. in this way all the esoteric aspects of alchemy have been abandoned because they couldn't be proven in a contrloed scientific setting. so no, scientists are not vexed by the fact that past scientists were wrong about certain things, the very fact that these things are no longer part of science prooves that the ability of science to self-correct itself works. I did a presentation on alchemy when i was in University, its very interesting.
