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To: Dimensio

"Creationists frequently resort to dictionary games to "prove" that scientists didn't mean what they say that they mean. I've seen it used for the word "theory" and I saw one creationist go through an extremely convoluted dictionary game to "prove" that evolution is a "religion" just like Christianity."

And I've seen evos try to say that a theory is a fact.



960 posted on 12/06/2005 8:16:36 PM PST by Sun (Hillary Clinton is pro-ILLEGAL immigration. Don't let her fool you. She has a D- /F immigr. rating.)
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To: Sun
And I've seen evos try to say that a theory is a fact.

How many of them tried to dishonestly swap out dictionary definitions to do so?

I've seen creationists play the dishonest dictionary game to "prove" that a theory is just a random guess based upon no evidence.
962 posted on 12/06/2005 8:18:31 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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And I've seen evos try to say that a theory is a fact.

No, you've seen people post that evolution is both a fact and a theory. The Theory of Evolution attempts to explain the mechanisms and processes of the fact of biological evolution. Biological evolution (biological changes over time) is a fact.

977 posted on 12/07/2005 7:56:46 PM PST by JeffAtlanta
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