Gidday Mark, if science admitted 'we just don't know', and admitted that their guess was no more sophisticated or valid than those that they overule, then I would have more time for them. I have formally studied the scientific process, and it isn't as straight forward as you suggest. Science is dictated to by funding and the peer power struggle. I like to refer to piltdown man as an example of science, not really because it was a hoax, and completely wrong, (because as the last post by palimpsest described, virtually all scientific theories collapse in the end), but because it blatently exposed the corruption and power plays that control the world of science, which are the ultimate decider of the myriad of 'proofs' submitted.
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