With prior knowledge of the confusion of the methods of forensic science method and the scientific method, it seems to be almost redundant to require actually believing that forensic scientists hold the correct positions when one method cannot coincide with the other. Science is defined as "a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws" (1). With this knowledge it is left to believe that all attributes considered to be used with science sound similar to the usage of forensic science. Unfortunately, forensic sciences study past incidents.
There are reasons as to why the past and the scientific method do not act as dependable bodies towards one another. When using the scientific method, the observation of current events takes place so that the new information is recorded. However, one cannot view the past. Situations of the past that took place may be remembered, but nothing, not even the five senses, will make it possible for anyone to replay the event. On the other hand, studying something of the present directs all uses of the senses. A known fact to man is to understand that the past cannot be re-seen. Fortunetellers present information of something that is prone to happen in the near future, not the past. The scientific method's intentions are to find out the outcome of a certain instance. When a discovery is made, science can only tell how the discovery was encountered and use retrodiction as to how it got there. When using the scientific method, you would know that designing experiments or creating controlled observations plays a big role when in search for the hypothesis. .
Consequently, this is not possible when determining what happened in the past. Experiments are defined as "a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact", meaning that a different route must be taken if the results are not expected.
