Responding again to the Phenomenal Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Understand that this response it given within the context of profound respect and gratitude for Dr. DeGrasse Tyson. Thank God, as it were for Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Nonetheless, Dr. Tyson, if the goes by that, insists again and again that the conclusions of science are facts about objective reality. There are testable propositions and if the tests confirm, inductively, through experiment, again and again, the validity of the proposition that proposition enters the realm of objective fact, or, as I’d say, fact. It’s a truth, a truth established by science, one we have to agree to or suffer being wrong. The earth goes around the sun would qualify as an objective truth, a fact, as would E=MC2. It would be unscientific to say that later data could not call these facts into question, but it would have to be data of a certain type, of the type that made it not just possible but necessary to prove Newton’s assertion that gravity is a force exerting its influence upon objects at a distance.
