The things the Egyptians actually verified hold true today. The rising of Sirius would correlate with the flooding of the Nile if not for the Aswan dams, for ex

The things the Egyptians actually verified hold true today. The rising of Sirius would correlate with the flooding of the Nile if not for the Aswan dams, for example. Things don't stop being true just because our opinions about them change: If something made a correct prediction, it will keep making those correct predictions within its realm of applicability. I won't bore you with an exegesis of how accurate the current Standard Model is when it comes to making predictions about lepton and hadron behavior. I'll simply emphasize that the behavior it's good for won't change tomorrow even if all our opinions change. That means any new theory will have to make all the same predictions about all the same behavior, just like Special Relativity has to agree with Newtonian mechanics in the low-speed realm. I'll close with an apposite link: "The Relativity of Wrong" by Asimov http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm > [W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.