Throughout the years we have learned a lot about how our bodies function and why they do the things they do, scientists have been VERY wrong in the past and some medical procedures have been very unsuccessful, and looking back we are all collectively like wow we were so dumb. But how do we know for sure we are correct now? Like how did we learn that the ovaries producs eggs that become fertilized by sperms and how on earth was this discovered and tested? How do we know its our thyroid that regulates hormones that effect other parts of the body?
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Science improves over time. Each new theory is slightly better than the previous one it superseded. We must humbly assume that all of our scientific theories today are not 100% absolutely perfectly correct and true; but rather, that are they *closer to the truth* than they were in the past, and we can expect that will be *even closer to the truth* in the future.
In other words, science is always wrong but it gets **less wrong** over time.
Isaac Asimov wrote “People [once] thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong [because the Earth has actually been proven to be closer the shape of an oblate spheroid]. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.”
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