You have been told time and time again, that science relied on tests, observations, experiments and evidence, NOT PROOF!
Evidence matters to scientists, not proofs.
Are you utterly incapable of understanding that PROOFS ARE NOT EVIDENCE!
Proofs are logical models, usually expressed mathematically in the forms of formulas, equations or constants.
Einstein’s Mass-Energy Equivalence equation:
E = m c^2
That equation isn’t evidence, but it is a mathematical proof to .
Proofs are true, until it has been tested, and the only ways to test equations is through observational evidence.
So with regards to Einstein’s famous equation for Special Relativity, it was never verified being true, until it was supported by ,
Equations are not evidence. Equations are part of the explanation or prediction, but they are not themselves, evidence.
You would think you would understand these differences between evidence and proofs...they are not the same things!
It would seem that you can teach a 12-year old child the distinction between evidence and proof, but you cannot teach an adult creationist.
And here you are only partially right.
In science, you do draw
conclusion from “observations”, not from “conjectures”.
All evidence are OBSERVATIONS, whether you find evidence from fieldwork or evidence from performing lab experiments.
EVIDENCE are physical phenomena that can be -
- observed or detected,
- quantified, measured,
- compared against each other,
- tested.
Evidence should provide data (information) that can be compared against the explanations, predictions and equations (proofs). The evidence and data are what determine if the hypothesis or theory is:
- TRUE & PROBABLE
- FALSE & IMPROBABLE.
It is the evidence and data that matter more in science than the equations (proofs), because the equations could be wrong.