>combined supercomputer simulations with mathematical modeling to predict
simulations and models are NOT empirical observations
conclusions based upon simulations and models are NOT scientific theory
they are SCIENCE FICTION
"Model-making, the imaginative and logical steps which precede the experiment, may be judged the most valuable part of scientific method because skill and insight in these matters are rare. Without them we do not know what experiment to do. BUT, it is the experiment which provides the raw material for scientific theory. Scientific theory cannot be built directly from the conclusions of conceptual models." – Herbert G. Andrewartha
"One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality." – Edwin Chargaff
"A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane." – J. Willard Gibbs
"Experiment leads to knowledge. Credulity leads to error." – Arabic Proverb