Posted on 09/22/2006 2:09:33 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
Free Republic is currently running a poll on this subject:
Do you think creationism or intelligent design should be taught in science classes in secondary public schools as a competing scientific theory to evolution?You can find the poll at the bottom of your "self search" page, also titled "My Comments," where you go to look for posts you've received.
I don't know what effect -- if any -- the poll will have on the future of this website's science threads. But it's certainly worth while to know the general attitude of the people who frequent this website.
Science isn't a democracy, and the value of scientific theories isn't something that's voted upon. The outcome of this poll won't have any scientific importance. But the poll is important because this is a political website. How we decide to educate our children is a very important issue. It's also important whether the political parties decide to take a position on this. (I don't think they should, but it may be happening anyway.)
If you have an opinion on this subject, go ahead and vote.
Your syntax here is contradictory, to wit:
"Refusal to see that they are (exclusionary[understood]) is based solely on human pride.
Anyway, your statement is no more or less indicative of hubris than the position you're criticizing.
In other words, it's only as good as the next piece of evidence, or the next, possibly more compelling, theory. Darwinism is the only scientific theory that seems to be immune to questioning and critical inquiry.
Of course it should.
Would you bet your life on such a theory? Better yet, would you bet your soul....
Would you bet your life on such a theory? Better yet, would you bet your soul....
Trite.
Have any data?
In other words...
The words are fine the way they are.
I see, so my response, which is not fundamentally dissimilar from your own, is trite, yet....
ooops, sorry for the friendly fire...
A theory isn't a premise.
"A theory can be overturned if new phenomena are observed that directly contradict the theory."
The correspondence principle applies to established theories. Those are theories that are backed with substantial evidence. What that means is that the old theory must appear as a special case of any newer, more general theory.
As to the existence of the soul?
Only my subjective experience that, each and every day, supports my observation that we are fundameentally distinct from every other organism that inhabits this planet. Personally, I think it's a sad state of affairs that supposedly reasonable, intelligent, mature adults fail to see what a child knows to be true.
Good night. We'll contend again on another occasion.
But an hypothesis is.
The correspondence principle applies to established theories. Those are theories that are backed with substantial evidence. What that means is that the old theory must appear as a special case of any newer, more general theory.
Falsification does not require the invocation of an alternate theory.
I think their is a misuse of the term here, too. Freeping a poll has never meant cheating on a poll. It is a just a term for notifying everyone here so they can vote en masse on a poll.
"Falsification does not require the invocation of an alternate theory."
Nothing at all is required. It is as I said previously, whether you like it, or not, others will develop a more general theory which will include the old as a special case. They will never be required to do that. they just will, because they want to.
BTW, the new theory is more general. It is not alternate.
They were so brazen, they even laid out their entire plot on an anti ID website.
It is called, "Getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar". How Johnson must regret writing the strategy down. First rule of dishonest conspiracy... don't commit anything to documents.
The truth is, you will never convince the Evolutionist of this.....the sad thing is that when they do realize it, it will be too late to change the mind.
Actually 'it's been marked on my calendar for many years now. To wit:
Keep mealy mouthed technocrats from elsewhere out of local business.
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