I am not an expert on the history of science, but I think that if people in the past based their worldviews on the level of science at the time, many would have had a mistaken worldview, so the track record for basing your worldview off of that isn't good, that's why I think it is good to study evolution, but not good to center it as a core of your worldview,
To give an example of this happening in political science @Logiko , unless I misunderstood or what I am saying about this is wrong, Marx and Engels thought that society progressed through stages in the modes of production, first in primitive communism, then in feudalism, then in capitalism, then in communism, and that is mistaken, but they had come to think that because they had a good understanding of how capitalism appeared, but very little data on anthropology,
To give an example of this happening in political science @Logiko , unless I misunderstood or what I am saying about this is wrong, Marx and Engels thought that society progressed through stages in the modes of production, first in primitive communism, then in feudalism, then in capitalism, then in communism, and that is mistaken, but they had come to think that because they had a good understanding of how capitalism appeared, but very little data on anthropology,
Science being a self-improving system is one of its pros, not a con
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I think the proof for evolution doesn't have to be a lie, for our current understanding of it, or for the current idea of it, to be mistaken,