"Science is all just guessing"

I'm bringing this up here become I believ?e it's safe to assume everyone (or at least close) are science minded.I recently heard a grown man exclaim that he doesn't like science because "it's all just guessing". I was dumbfounded to say the least. It made me think about the current "war on science" going on all around us. If you're thinking about a comparison between now and when people were getting burned at the stake for science, you may be more accurate than you realize. 1 out of every 4 people questioned believe the sun revolves around the Earth.
Is this really what our society has become?? What happened here?? I never imagined I would see the day...
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Science is all about discovery and in order to discover something there has to be an element of guessing, just as there has to be an element of luck, an element of imagination, an element of doubt and a process of elimination.All of sciences major discoveries began with guessing until all the elements listed above were processed and the guessing was turned in to fact. All proven scientific discoveries are science fact, all those scientific theories yet to be proven are science fiction, many have the potential to become science fact.

The man who claimed that science is ''all just guessing'' is extremely ill informed and has given no thought to his statement. For example, fifty years ago heart transplants were just a dream (science fiction) now they are commonplace. Are those highly skilled cardiac surgeons that carry out such procedures just guessing? Of course they are not, heart transplants are a result of pioneering scientific research encompassing all the elements i have discussed which has turned science fiction in to science fact.

There are still people around who believe the earth is flat, some ignorant minds will never be changed, even in the face of overwhelming evidence.

 
There was no ridicule or insulting. My reply reinforced the the starter of the thread, and was directed at KerrTexas. KerrTexas is making the assertion that the Earth rotates about the Sun because there is data to support that position. But the position is not scientific because there is suppressed data. The Michelson-Morley experiment favors the stationary Earth position. So we have two conflicting groups of data. A scientific approach would be to incorporate all the data into an explanation. That isn't being done. Real science does not throw out data in order to support ones position.The original Einstein did the same thing with his Equivalence Principal. He asserted that there is no difference between the effects of gravitational weight and inertial weight. But additional data was ignored showing the two types of weight are unique unto one another. Inertial weight can only exist in the presence of an inertial acceleration. Gravitational weight only exists in the absence of acceleration.
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Ok, I was speaking generally, but you were talking about the original discussion. My bad.

 
Science is the accumulation of knowledge from generation to generation. That knowledge is improving and it improves as time moves. Science is based on real life and supported by experiments though i do believe that some are just guessed.

 
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