• Question: Will we ever know the truth about how the world started?

    Asked by jewlz to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 26 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by shaniqua, ciaraxxx.
    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      All of science is about creating a theory and looking for evidence to prove or disprove the theory, so we will never really know the “truth” about anything, but I think we stand a good shot at getting strong evidence for an appropriate theory about it, yes.

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      I think that people have some good ideas now, but there will always be more to find out about those early earth days. So yes, people will have a pretty good idea of the ‘truth’.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      We’ll never know the truth. We will probably get to a point where we have a theory that passes all the tests and looks believable, but because no one was around at the beginning, we’ll never know for sure.

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