I have just explained the scientific procedure to somebody just days ago, in another thread, and I do not repeat it all again. A good explanation what science
is doing and why it necessarily leads not to claims of penultimate truiths, but theories "only", I found in this book. the later chapter on Astrology as a
pseudoscience you can still use when replacing the word "Astrology" with for example "believing" or "religion" or "miracle and wonder", something like that.
the general remarks on astrology would be valid for these as well. All this stuff I set up should already be known to everybody who has done time at
university, it really is very basic and fundamental stuff.
The layout and small font is the way it is because I cannot change it and also cannot paste and copy the text.
from: CWS Mastering Astronomy online e-book version of Bennet/Donahue/Schneider/Voit: The Cosmic
Perspective, 5th edition, Pearson Education (highly recommended book, worth every penny).