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To: silverleaf

SEARCHING for the truth is far different than expounding a theory and CALLING it truth.
Just saying...


54 posted on 03/05/2010 7:05:49 AM PST by MestaMachine (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426869/posts SUPPORT RINO FREE AMERICA)
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To: MestaMachine
SEARCHING for the truth is far different than expounding a theory and CALLING it truth.

Expounding a theory, showing how it is consistent with data you have and opening it for challenge are how you search for truth in science. When after years of debate the only folks holding on are dead-enders who won't give up on ideas that do not fit the data, you declare victory and move on.

Of course, no scientific theory is unchallengeable, not Newton's laws, Maxwell's equations, the theory of relativity, or the Standard Model for electro-weak interactions. But, after they have become generally accepted, then, in order to have any credibility in your challlenge, the burden is upon you to produce convincing data and an explanation.

Science cannot progress if you never state that we have closed such and such an issue and are moving on.

Just saying....

62 posted on 03/05/2010 8:23:28 AM PST by AndyJackson
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