Because science is not based on intuitive feelings about how things may work, but on theories which try to explain how they actually work. It's not enough to ha

Because science is not based on intuitive feelings about how things may work, but on theories which try to explain how they actually work. It's not enough to have a nebulous idea like "the Earth is a stable system that can absorb shocks." You need a model that describes exactly that, and then you need to see if the data agrees with that model.