Originally Posted by
baron
It's bizarre you should ascertain that science, instead of discarding old hypotheses in favour of new ones, clings grimly to the same concept and tries to shoe-horn into it into the ever-changing evidential framework of reality. That's not a behaviour of science I've ever encountered but you know, it does ring a bell...
If it's not a behaviour of science you've ever encountered, then science isn't doing that, and I don't see what your problem is.
...ah, unless you want there to be souls, of course.