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To: BroJoeK
No, unlike religious doctrines, scientific theories are always subject to falsification by new evidence and better ideas.

Nope, it's religion. You can't falsify evolution or global warming.

30 posted on 09/02/2016 2:32:52 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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To: DungeonMaster
DungeonMaster: "Nope, it's religion.
You can't falsify evolution or global warming."

Of course you can, if you have confirmed observations or better ideas contradicting them.

Indeed "AGW" -- anthropogenic global warming -- doesn't really qualify as a scientific theory, since the confirmations are weak to nonexistent.
It is still more hypothesis which was, unfortunately, hijacked by insane politicians maniacally bent on controlling every aspect of their citizens lives.
So the science is interesting, worth pursuing, but the politics is a very different matter.

As for evolution theories, much has changed since Darwin's time 150+ years ago.
For one thing, there's been a steady stream of new information clarifying many ideas, debunking others and giving rise to whole new theories.
Just consider: prior to Mendel nobody knew anything about genetics, much less DNA.
Today those mysteries are better understood and that has profoundly effected our ideas related to evolution.

Point is, as new data arrives, many old ideas get falsified while others are confirmed as facts.
And so with evolution: Darwin's basic ideas of 1) descent with modifications and 2) natural selection are both now observed facts, no longer just hypotheses of theories.
However, origin of life speculations are still pretty much just that -- speculation & hypotheses, not confirmed theories, much less facts.
In that particular realm, scientific ideas can often rise & fall again in a matter of a few years.

Point is: none of this has any relationship to religious doctrines or practices.

35 posted on 09/03/2016 5:41:40 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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