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To: Boiler Plate
You again?

Yes it is a brave new world in science as "Scientific Method" has been replaced by "Scientific Fantasy".

Put up or shut up. Where has the TOE been falsified?

Show us all that you don't live in some fantasy world yourself.

1,007 posted on 03/19/2003 4:13:10 PM PST by balrog666 (When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain)
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To: balrog666; Con X-Poser; Dataman; AndrewC; gore3000; Jael
BR,

Did you not get out of grade school yet?

In case you didn't, "Scientific Method" requires you to prove the big "TOE" through expirementation.

This was taken from a grade school curriculum in case you missed it.

I. The scientific method has four steps

1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.

2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation.

3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.

4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.

If the experiments bear out the hypothesis it may come to be regarded as a theory or law of nature (more on the concepts of hypothesis, model, theory and law below). If the experiments do not bear out the hypothesis, it must be rejected or modified. What is key in the description of the scientific method just given is the predictive power (the ability to get more out of the theory than you put in; see Barrow, 1991) of the hypothesis or theory, as tested by experiment. It is often said in science that theories can never be proved, only disproved. There is always the possibility that a new observation or a new experiment will conflict with a long-standing theory.

Here is the URL in case you would like to study up.

http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy_labs/AppendixE/AppendixE.html

The last sentence explains why you silly notion that I have to disprove TOE is a canard. You have failed the most fundamental elementary part of science. You have to prove your theory true. I do not have to prove it false.

So if you would like to continue to suggest that TOE is valid and true, please provide that time and place of the first succesful abiogenesis experiment and what life form was created in that near famous moment?

So, as you say, "Put up or shut up".

Best Regards,
Boiler Plate

1,019 posted on 03/19/2003 6:28:48 PM PST by Boiler Plate
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