candy said:
People who deny that things have happened that "scientific method" can not explain are the one's who are denying reality.
Take for instance the case of a mother attending a meeting on the east coast who stands up and tells her husband that they must go home now because something has happened to their daughter who lives on the west coast. (This information is dutifully recorded by the secretary in the minutes of the meeting.) The daughter had been hit by a truck. This is truth; science may not know how this happens but that it did is reality.
Healing miracles have happened so often that medicine gave them a label "spontaneous healing" and then having given it a name ignores the event it can not explain. Medical records of tests and observable conditions show that the condition exisisted but is now healing or healed by something other than medical intervention. Not being able to explain how does not mean that it is not real. Reality is what it is; it does not depend on "scientific method" to exisist. Reality is what it is and always has been from the "big bang" onwards.
Not being able to explain with the "scientific method" how something works does not mean that it does not exisist. The Earth did not suddenly start to orbit the Sun because someone observed that it did; even when people thought the Sun orbited the Earth the reality was that the Earth was orbiting the Sun. Gravity did not begin when some one measured the effects and set up scientific laws measuring them. Calling what happens with entanglement phenomenon "spooky" does not imply that it is not happening; it only implies that you do not understand how it is happening. Hopefully exploring the "spooky" events will give us more understanding of other phenomenon that are real but unexplained by science. To paraphrase the problem is not in the stars but in the limited ability of science to explain them.
Candy, I do not know of a single rational person who would not agree that the "scientific method" cannot explain everything. Neither would any sensible person insist that something does not exist until the scientific method "says" it does. There are still plenty of things left to explore.
However, having said that, it does NOT open the door to accept every single crazy notion that people can invent. And for
every single case like the story you just related about the mother/daughter/accident there are millions of unrecorded events that are similar where, in fact, nothing at all had happened. Pretty much all of us have had those kind of moments (generated by concern) in which nothing had actually occurred.
And just as you mentioned about the proper workings of the solar system, the scientific method - which appears distasteful to you from the way you describe it - will eventually find the truth. But simply thrashing around blindly and believing all sorts of "weird" things will never uncover the truth of anything. As much as Duendy and a few others dislike science and the scientific method, it is responsible for all the advancements that make our lives much better (and longer, too) than they were a century ago.
And while you considering that last thought, please show me where
any psychic, medium, fortuneteller or the like has
ever done anything to improve the standard of living or quality of life for the people of the world.