PRONOUNSThings can change, it’s called progress

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 26 insightful - 3 fun26 insightful - 2 fun27 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

A disingenuous argument. When there was sufficient evidence for multiple chemical elements the Classical view of four elements was discarded.

Biologists would happily discard the 2 sex model, if provided sufficient evidence. The biologist who developed the evidence would probably get a Nobel prize in Physiology or some shit. The sticking point is that science doesn’t accept “I feel like a boy today, but yesterday I felt like a girl” as evidence of anything other than an individual with too few real problems.

We went through all this with the creationists in the 00s, if you don’t agree with evolutionary theory that’s great, just provide the evidence for your alternate theory and collect your Nobel. No, what’s written in a book isn’t evidence.

The shameful thing is that a lot of the people who were vocal critics of creationism have suddenly adopted this evidence-less religious belief in trans etc. it’s fucking weird.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yep. Actually the four elemental theory of chemical physics was much closer to gender theory as there wasn't a testable model and it was mostly people just making substances fit the categories based on what they felt was right. But of course to be fair, this was centuries ago without the same level of scientific documentation and tools necessary to do the experiments.

Our current understanding of the periodic is also, almost certainly incomplete, and doesn't really describe the fundamental nature of matter. It falls apart below the subatomic, as atoms themselves aren't the fundamental building blocks of matter. There are smaller things still.

The 4 classical elements is actually still somewhat useful as a model because it describes one thing, the four known phases of matter. Earth=solids, water=liquids wind=gas and fire=plasma. It's not describing the fundamental building blocks of matter but they didn't exactly have microscopes back then.

[–]GrilledTofuIdentifying as a block of tofu[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The 4 elemental theory is also deeply philosophical. It's actually pretty interesting stuff.