Moore's Law of Accuracy

Understanding why and how science changes from generation to generation and It only increases with accuracy and does not reduce its relevance because it changes.

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Education

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• moores
• law
• accuracy
• science
• atheism
• creationsim
• lens
• reality
• evolution

[sambricky]

This an excellent analogy of how science works. But the reality is since tv used to be black and white. And penguins are black and white. It stands to reason that penguins will someday be in color.

[anubis2814]

@sambricky Ooh, color penguins will be awesome!!!

[RushWinRAR]

@anubis2814 That could potentially lead to JaguarJones' being right in his signature statement: "Penguins are totally gay".

[anubis2814]

@RushWinRAR I think that pangolins but yeah lol

[Lucem2]

Science doesn't always move at an exponential rate or under a "Moore's Law". During the Dark Ages (Early Middle Ages) Science took a long pause.

[anubis2814]

@Lucem2 Look up Sagan and and the story on Hypatia on youtube. This occurs when scientists don't bother to make science clear and relevant to the common people and superstition takes control like what is happening with the ID movement. Its much easier to control people that way. The Dark ages did have an exponential growth from the knowledge lost but it was at the low end of the parabola and slow to get off the ground.

[yedrow]

Blech, another idiotic Athiest strawman argument.

[EcoDimension]

those slides are so funny!

[Lucem2]

@Korkzor Basically I agree with Anubis' video, but I got the impression that it was explained as a Deterministic phenomenon. So I wanted to point out that Scientific progress is not guaranteed and major events have disrupted scientific progress in the past. Many Great Civilizations have come and go despite their scientific achievements.

[Korkzor]

@Lucem2 Well, ye, you have to be actually allowed to do science to make it work and not have it suppressed by an overly stimulated power hungry church.

[Underlings]

Good material, as usual.

[smaakjeks]

@ikesbrain

My thoughts always return to that letter when people talk of the "shifting knowledge of science".

[RushWinRAR]

@anubis2814 Oh, wow, you're right, he does say pangolins.

[GallusSapien]

that pic at 3:37 is wonderfully Orwellian. Freedom is Slavery.

Good video. I may use this argument against creationists, though I imagine they will do their damnest to not understand it.

[ikesbrain]

Along the same lines as this video, I recommend reading Isaac Asimov's letter entitled, "The Relativity of Wrong." (Just Google the title and it should be the first result) It provides a good explanation as to why science is less often explicitly wrong in the past, rather it just becomes more correct as time and technique progress. It uses the change in knowledge of the shape/curvature of the earth as its prime example.