re: #670 reason0911

Actually, the cool thing about science is that when theories are established, it provides an easy way to test new theories. New theories can be easily first tested against things that are known to be true, and, if they mesh with that, then they can be tested to see if the new theories provide better predictive or explanatory results than current theories. If they do, then they’re accepted as the better theory; if they’re somewhere in the ballpark, they’re accepted as one of the competing theories on the subject.

You don’t start from zero on every new theory, at all. Your view has nothing to do with the Western tradition of science.