by discussing the changing views of the shape of the earth, from flat to spherical to pear-shaped (it’s now considered an oblate spheroid, or oblate ellipsoid). The same thing can be said about Newton’s laws of motion as completed (not falsified) by Einstein’s relativity equations. Newton’s equations were not wrong you see, even though he didn’t factor time into them, as Einstein did. They just don’t work at or near the speed of light. In a like manner, Hume gave us the initial questioning paradigm to evaluate testimonies to miracles, which still holds true. But now with Bayes’ Theorem we
...more
