Of course. Factual evidence will always be the strongest founding point of knowledge. The only difference is how we look at it, based on other evidence. That is the purpose of science, after all: to assemble the pieces of the puzzle that is the universe, and understanding how each piece must be posed.

[That could be an innuendo if one so pleased, but there really is nothing as truly arousing as the bliss of knowledge and fantastic science. John Dalton is no ordinary science hooker - he is the highest class of pleasure one can experience within the atomic community.]