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To: exDemMom; Alamo-Girl; YHAOS; metmom
My paraphrasing was an accurate assessment of the Popper quote that was posted earlier. Being able to rephrase an idea in one's own words is the best demonstration one can make of one's comprehension of the idea. The corollary that once falsified, a theory is no longer a theory, is implicit.

You continue to insist that your quote from Popper was "an accurate assessment" in the face a at least a few people who, so far, are on record as rejecting your assessment, I gather on logical and evidentiary grounds.... No matter. Let the games begin.

You wrote:

...this particular Popper quote is to introduce by inferrence the notion that the Theory of Evolution is untested and untestable, without actually having to present evidence to support that notion (because such evidence does not exist).

If this is what Popper is saying, then it seems to me he's not telling us anything we don't already know: To wit: The Theory of Evolution (as an indisputably, thorough-goingly historical science) is completely untestable by means of Bacon's Scientific Method.

You seize onto the idea of "false dichotomies," but I don't really see you demonstrate any.

You say that "no evidence exists" that can disprove Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Well, since I have found plenty of disconfirming evidence by now, how are we ever to get "on the same page" again, so as to have a rational discourse about the facts of such matters?

Arrrgghhhhh! I pray for truthful communication and understanding with/among my fellow human beings at all times.

So, where do you and I, dear exDemMom, go from here?

540 posted on 03/12/2012 2:36:59 PM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through the eye. — William Blake)
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To: betty boop
I also want to see where we can go from here, if anywhere.
542 posted on 03/12/2012 8:33:42 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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