Is Our Children Learning Part III: The universe began with a huge explosion.

I know what you mean, Vaulty. Well, the other two were straightforward, but this one felt like a trick question to me. Maybe we're just finding it hard to believe that the answer most of us know, that seems so simple to us, is the answer he actually wants.

I know what you mean, Vaulty. Well, the other two were straightforward, but this one felt like a trick question to me. Maybe we're just finding it hard to believe that the answer most of us know, that seems so simple to us, is the answer he actually wants.

It is not proven as fact. It is just a theory. That is why it seems like a trick question.

It is not proven as fact. It is just a theory. That is why it seems like a trick question.

Oh. My. God.

Asamin, when theories are consistent they constitute as a form of fact.

Facts globally accepted by most scientists.

Like the big bang.

Buuuut... I don't believe anything is real so I don't have to believe in anything. : )

Like Newtonian physics? Look how that turned out.

Like Newtonian physics? Look how that turned out.

First of all, I wouldn't consider Newtonian physics to be altogether incorrect.

I can understand your perspective, though. Nevertheless, being wrong about one thing does not at all imply that you are wrong about something else.

I'm just illustrating that in the end even laws are just theories. It's always possible you might find hidden components to equations that reveal that you weren't exactly right.

You and your opponents are both right. The big bang theory is past the "theory" stage of the scientific method, but at the same time you can't prove it untill you invent a time machine.

Even then it could be God fucking with your eyes.

You know?

Tomorrow's post will be titled "Theories, Laws, and Facts."

It can't be proven. Therefore, it is not fact.

Nothing is a fact by that logic, Asamin. Nothing.

Nothing is a fact by that logic, Asamin. Nothing.

This is true. Therefore, everything is theory.