wyndhy,

Your criticism that those who agree with the tenets of modern science are not wholly open minded is not only reasonable, but correct.

Science is a domain with limits. Modern science seeks to explain the universe in terms of observed or testable natural mechanisms. Quantum Mechanics describes the atomic nucleus with specific concepts governing matter and energy, and it tests those descriptions experimentally. Particles – mesons for example – are accepted into the theory only when data show that the previous descriptions cannot adequately explain observed phenomena. Because they must fit within the existing framework of physics, new particles can not have arbitrary properties.

To be scientific, theories must be falsifiable.

Due to the enormous success that the scientific method has had, I find the limits it imposes a reasonable trade off.

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