Ok. I asked because it seemed somewhat ambiguous.
I just wonder how that would work out with someone such as Alfred Wegener (plate tectonics), or others who have gone against accepted consensus and eventually been found to be right. It seems the view you put forward would act as a huge brake against any kind of innovation in science - which frankly is what we already have, but I guess you'd like more inertia.
Typoz,
You either misread me or I didn't formulate my thought properly. You cite an example that embodies exactly what I am talking about.
Skepticism is to be embedded in Science, this is how it moves forward. Skepticism is about doubting other people's position as well as yours. Nowadays, for loads of scientists and so called gatekeepers (Dawkins, Novella, Harris and the likes) it's all about doubting everything that's outside dogma.
Did I make myself clearer?
When I started this thread I wanted to expose how dogma creates inertia. They wont do any carbon dating on the dinosaur tissues because it is supposedly millions of years old. The fact that tissue survives more than 100k years goes already beyond what we know and I find Schweitzer's explanation about preservation of the tissue (presence of iron) rather weak.
Nobody ever questions how the age of the strata is calculated because it's hard enrooted in Science. Lots of scientists find it perfectly normal to have inconstancy in strata all over the globe, to find that in places like the Grand Canyon one strata is missing.
Who is questioning this in the scientific community? Nobody. It's considered heresy. Instead of questioning the things they
believe in they leave it to the creationists and their agenda to "do" the work.
And people with a true inquiring mind are left sandwiched between those two.
I will close my post with this little of observation. A couple of years ago I read something in a book about evolution saying somehting along the lines of "we are lucky to have fossils. If we didn't it wouldnt matter. Evolution is true"
This was Richard Dawkins in his book greatest show on earth. If this man is a man of science then we are in deep shit
This is longer science this is faith and this scary because faith with evidence leads to endoctrination.
Anyway I am beating a dead horse here. True honest and logical people know that Science has been hijacked by people with an agenda.