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100% I wish more people paid attention to the _methodology_. A lot of people define science as the search for "truth", where it really it is the methodology that makes it the key differentiator from religion. The process of hypothesizing then subjecting a theory to rigorous, rational, evidence-based scrutiny is THE key differentiator.



Also the fact that a theory is refutable. That a theory is not _the_ truth, but the best explanation so far and if something proves it completely or partially wrong then we move on to the new, better theory.




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