Not to put too fine a point on it, but you sound like you already expect science’s predictions for velocity to come true before you “choose to reject old beliefs”. If someone asked you beforehand to bet on whether your intuitions or science would pan out here (in those words), you’d bet on science.
I sometimes feel (less often now) that if I ‘follow the rules’ nothing really bad can happen to me. I try to fight this feeling because even my own sheltered life suggests its predictions would fail eventually.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but you sound like you already expect science’s predictions for velocity to come true before you “choose to reject old beliefs”. If someone asked you beforehand to bet on whether your intuitions or science would pan out here (in those words), you’d bet on science.
I sometimes feel (less often now) that if I ‘follow the rules’ nothing really bad can happen to me. I try to fight this feeling because even my own sheltered life suggests its predictions would fail eventually.
ETA: alief.