True. But equally we know just because a majority think it's true, doesn't mean it is.

Science at least reinvents and repositions itself. Without science, we'd still have faith the World was flat.

Posted By: Yellalee on March 29th 2014 at 21:18:18

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The straw I'm clutching to (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Mar 29, 20:44:45
- I love the juxtaposition of 9/10ths of your post with the last sentence. (NCFC) - Yellalee, Mar 29, 20:49:53
  - Aren't almost all football fans superstitious in some way? And while the year ending in 1 (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Mar 29, 20:53:19
    - Honestly? No. Has more to do with our rough place in the pecking order of football than an (NCFC) - Yellalee, Mar 29, 20:58:25
      - I'd love to discover at what point you'd change that view - after we're relegated in 2025, (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Mar 29, 21:00:56
        
        Haha. Let's stick around and find out. (NCFC) - Yellalee, Mar 29, 21:05:04
        
        In 2011, Spurs reached the European Cup quarter-finals. ;) (n/m) (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Mar 29, 21:08:10
        
        You're like a punter in a fortune teller's tent. (NCFC) - Yellalee, Mar 29, 21:10:24
        
        :D Always looking for patterns and parallels, me. And prone to confirmation bias too :) (n/m) (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Mar 29, 21:11:59
        
        if the omens say that we only get relegated from the top league in a '5 year (NCFC) - Mecagoenti, Mar 29, 21:13:33
        
        Ha! (n/m) (NCFC) - Yellalee, Mar 29, 21:16:38
        
        Excellent point! Answer: because I'm a pessimist. (n/m) (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Mar 29, 21:15:34
        
        But if we stay up this year AND we stay up next year, hopefully that'll finally change (n/m) (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Mar 29, 21:16:07
        
        the word 'coincidence' was invented for a reason (n/m) (NCFC) - Mecagoenti, Mar 29, 21:02:38
        
        Disagree. I think there's something in numerology, for example. (n/m) (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Mar 29, 21:03:50
        
        are you ok? (n/m) (NCFC) - Huge Small, Mar 29, 21:06:09
        
        no (n/m) (NCFC) - Charles21, Mar 29, 21:04:31
        
        Yes. :) So many people dismiss what they're not willing to try and understand (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Mar 29, 21:05:53
        
        you mean science does not *yet* explain everything. But it will eventually (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 30, 00:09:53
        
        Well this is far more interesting than discussing the football... (n/m) (NCFC) - Yellalee, Mar 29, 21:08:36
        
        I dismiss nonsense (NCFC) - Charles21, Mar 29, 21:08:36
        
        Well then you're arrogant. Disgracefully so, given the massive number of people who have (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Mar 29, 21:10:28
        
        I wouldn't call it arrogant, just entitled to my view (NCFC) - Charles21, Mar 29, 21:14:53
        
        It's not faith that science tries to disprove (or indeed disproves) (NCFC) - Yellalee, Mar 29, 21:12:23
        
        Depends on what you mean. People have faith in all sorts of things; people have very (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Mar 29, 21:14:38
        
        True. But equally we know just because a majority think it's true, doesn't mean it is. (NCFC) - Yellalee, Mar 29, 21:18:18
        
        But of course I agree here too. I'm not anti-science or anti-reason at all (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Mar 29, 21:21:07
        
        Yep, with you on that (n/m) (NCFC) - Yellalee, Mar 29, 21:22:58
        
        oh no (n/m) (NCFC) - Huge Small, Mar 29, 21:17:28
        
        uh oh (n/m) (NCFC) - Huge Small, Mar 29, 21:08:13
        
        are you ok? (n/m) (NCFC) - Charles21, Mar 29, 21:18:05
        
        uh oh (n/m) (NCFC) - Huge Small, Mar 29, 21:07:56

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