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To: allmendream

“I eagerly await her forthcoming explanations.”

Tell you what. I’m going to suggest she not explain anything to you until you have responded to the article—which you never did.

You said:

“Nothing in Science is ever “proven”, just provisionally accepted pending further data.”

The article lists several things in science that have been proved:

1. electrical cardioversion or defibrillation

2. anesthesia

3. geo-stationary satelites

4. controlled nuclear chain reaction

5. quantum principles of solid state electronics

6. light amplification by phased stimulated emission

7. wireless communication

8. heavier than air human flight

At one time these were all bitterly contested scientific questions. They are now all established sceintific facts, the proof of the theories.

Now which of these has not yet been proven in your mind?

I eagerly await you forthcoming explanation.

Hank


269 posted on 05/07/2008 10:46:53 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief
They are all facts that fit within the theory. The exact voltage for defibrillation, the exact dose of the right drug for the right person, the quantum theory; all are provisionally accepted pending further data.

Postmodernists think there is no objective reality ‘We all create our own reality’.

Science believes we can make a model that will predict and explain objective reality, but we do not confuse the model for reality itself, and we try not to get dogmatic about the model, after all a contrary explanation or a refinement of the theory could happen at any time. That is what we like to call “Scientific advancement”.

274 posted on 05/07/2008 5:13:31 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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