Oleg writes:
And it's no different in science than it is in politics
Except in science there is bedrock of empiricism.
In science there maybe prevailing thought, but hero status awaits for anyone to challenge the paradigm and back it up with evidence. This is where science is superior to religion. Science allows for a change in the navigational course while religion burns its heretics on the stake and remain in error.
Oleg writes:
Money makes the world go round.
Consider this. In the business of oil exploration dating of rock is used to aid in finding oil deposits. The same is true for mineral exploration companies and paleontologist in their hunt for their quarry. One test of the validity of a theory is how useful and how well it predicts outcomes. If radiometric dating was completely subjective and just a product of group think then these field would abandon the tool and pull out Genesis instead.
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