perception and evidence: forum for week of 10 Oct

Shmo: Nature has a way of giving evidence that cuts through the firmest convictions. If a belief is wrong sooner or later one of its predictions is just obviously false, even to the most prejudiced perception.

The problem is the "later" I find. If this later doesn't show up for hundreds of years, maybe thousands, it will have been rooted so deeply in the human mind that it will be too hard to uproot it