Science Is Dead

Well...really I was just kind of joking around. I was going to point out stuff like the fact the either Clinton or Trump will be our next president and that proves we as a people, have lost the ability to make rational decisions. We stumble around with our heads buried in a 6 inch box, thinking of nothing but clever hashtags. But since Con want to be serious, we can do that,,, A basic version of the scientific process that has led humanity to this point works like this - Step 1 Make on observation. Step 2 Formulate a theory to explain why something is happening Step 3 Test the theory, usually by making predictions. Step 4 If the theory fails the test, reject it and think of a new idea that may be correct. We have screwed that up. It's all gone wrong at Step 4. Today we no longer reject theories when they have failed. We invent new theories to save the failed theories. Then when that fails, we invent another and another and another. This line of thinking never allows us to admit we are wrong. Real science would celebrate being wrong, but not us, we have too much pride, too much arrogance. In 1900 there were only a few thousand cars in America https://www.fhwa.dot.gov... If you wanted to get from one city to another, odds are, you took a horse and wagon for some if not all the journey. Heck, Cowboys were still fighting Indians. Many say the last Indian uprising was the Posey war of 1923. But a person born in the back of a covered wagon on the Oregon trail in 1900, could board a plane and fly to London at twice the speed of sound by and then hear a man speak from the surface of the moon in 1969. In one persons lifetime. 1900-1972 Alternating Current Airplanes Computers Internet Penicillin Rockets Splitting the Atom Television MRI CT Scan But since then what? A person born in 5000 BC didn't have a very different life than someone born in 1700 AD, In fact, we are still wondering how the Egyptians pulled some of that stuff off. But the time period between 1700 and 1972 saw more technological progress than all of human history combined and then multiplied by a million. What happened? In a word - THEORY Theory replaced fact, and all of science died. They say in a debate you should never ask a question you don't already know the answer to - But I really just want to know. Con can you please name any invention or discovery that HAS made a significant difference in humanity, since 1972? Notice I said "has", not "could" or "should". Our idea of progress is a new Iphone. But everything that touches our life today is just an improvement on something that was invented before most of us were born. The Big Bang Theory is no longer that, its current name would be The Hot Big Bang Lamda Cold Dark Matter Slow Role Inflationary Model which has to be re-written every 5 seconds. It defines the Universe as about - 73% Invisible,Undetectable Dark Energy 23% Invisible, Undetectable Dark Matter Floating around in a infinite number of Invincible, Undetectable Parallel Universes. Which we can't find because they are probably hiding in Invisible, Undetectable Alternate Dimensions. Yeah.. You want to tell me the Universe is 13.7 billion years old but you can't find 96% of it? Really?!!? What exactly does it take for someone to admit that something is wrong? How many imaginary forces and energies have to be added before someone says,"Alright, that's enough!" Our best minds are trapped in a word of failed theories. They aren't thinking of new theories that might be correct. They are stuck trying to save failed ideas. Stuck developing a new theory of what sort of shoes go with the Emperor's New Suit.