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To: PatrickHenry
"Those are facts."

No. those are what YOU think are facts. They can not be empirically reproduced scientifically, so SCIENTICALLY, it is thus only a THEORY. Unless you can scientifically, empirically reproduce what you conjecture, then it's NOT FACT, IT'S THEORY. That's why it's called the "Theory of Evolution", not the "Fact of Evolution".

1,552 posted on 12/30/2002 6:58:14 PM PST by webber
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To: webber
No. those are what YOU think are facts. They can not be empirically reproduced scientifically, so SCIENTICALLY, it is thus only a THEORY. Unless you can scientifically, empirically reproduce what you conjecture, then it's NOT FACT, IT'S THEORY. That's why it's called the "Theory of Evolution", not the "Fact of Evolution".

And reading this drivel I'm even more opposed to such a disclaimer in biology books but I suggest to put a page in every science textbook on which the correct scientific definition of theory, hypothesis, fact, law and model is given.
It seems that most people who favor this "discaimer" are stuck with the vernacular meaning of the terms "theory" and "fact".

1,595 posted on 12/30/2002 8:33:17 PM PST by BMCDA
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