Evolution Isn't Science

hutchinson News ^ | 11/27/2012 | KENNETH B. LUCAS

[YHAOS]

“I generally consider observations expressed in perjoratives and epithets to qualify as “complaints”.

Oh, I quite agree. I do not find, however, that a disagreement with you qualifies as a “pejorative” or an “epithet.”

[tacticalogic]

Oh, I quite agree. I do not find, however, that a disagreement with you qualifies as a “pejorative” or an “epithet.”

I wouldn't worry about it. Not everybody is good at finding stuff.

[metmom]

If you want science taught, then drop the humanist/atheist creation account of evolution. It’s philosophy and doesn’t belong in a science class.

It’s not based on the scientific method but rather forensic evidence and extrapolation (read:speculation)

[metmom]

That something happened by physical laws ( which I and many others think were designed by GOD) is useful.

Why? Is it because that you ASSume that physical laws don't and haven't changed and thereby feel justified in your ASSumptions?

What hard scientific proof do you have that all the physical laws have always operated as we observe them to do now?

Assuming it happened by miraculous intervention is useless and inapplicable to anything else.

Then how do you explain miracles, those events which happen which break the physical laws that govern the universe?

I am sorry that you think that science is anti God. That attitude says a lot more about your limitations than it does about the limits of science.

No, that's not true at all. I don't think that SCIENCE is anti God, but only that some scientists like you are.

[YHAOS]

“Not everybody is good at finding stuff”

Reduced to infantile snarkiness . . . pathetic.

What causes you to gag ... what you can’t stand ... is that Creationism is a tenet of Christianity and is the wellspring of America’s devotion to liberty for all mankind.

[tacticalogic]

What causes you to gag ... what you can’t stand ... is that Creationism is a tenet of Christianity and is the wellspring of America’s devotion to liberty for all mankind.

Have you always been telepathic, or was it the result of some sort of traumatic experience or head injury?

[Oztrich Boy]

Evolution isn’t science.

The whole theory is based on forensic evidence and extrapolation.

Sir Francis Bacon expresses surprise that you are able to summarise the argument of Novum Organum Scientiarum ('New Method') (1620), and yet miss the whole point.

"forensic evidence and extrapolation" has been the meaning of "science" for close on four centuries.

[metmom]

"forensic evidence and extrapolation" has been the meaning of "science" for close on four centuries.

So what happened to the scientific method and testability and observability and repeatability?

Seems that way too many people are ready to change the definition of *science* at a moment's notice based on what best fits their agenda.

[metmom]

YHAOS doesn’t need telepathy to see what is blindingly obvious to the most causal observer of these threads.

[YHAOS]

"Have you always been telepathic, or was it the result of some sort of traumatic experience or head injury?"

If you can't take . . . don't dish it out.

[tacticalogic]

I’m glad you’re feeling better.

[tacticalogic]

If you can't take . . . don't dish it out.

I didn't realize you found being questioned so offensive.

[YHAOS]

"I didn't realize you found being questioned so offensive."

Contrarily, I have always been well aware that you can't deal with ideas different from your own.

[tacticalogic]

Contrarily, I have always been well aware that you can't deal with ideas different from your own.

That's amazing. Inutero?

[YHAOS]

“Inutero?”

Курсы для беременных и подготовка?

If you're going to speak Russian, you'll have to translate.

Otherwise . . .
Is the purpose of words meant to convey meaning? Or to control meaning? Presumably you would claim the former. Your practice seems to demonstrate the latter

[tacticalogic]

Words can be ambiguous. Constrained meaning contributes to clarity and coherence and minimizes opportunities for obfuscation and sophistry.

[grey_whiskers]

"Forensic evidence and extrapolation" (observation in vivo as it were, as opposed to carefully designed and executed experiments (imposition of controls whose presence cannot be guaranteed outside of the lab)?

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

"Forensic evidence and extrapolation" (observation in vivo as it were), as opposed to carefully designed and executed experiments (imposition of controls whose presence cannot be guaranteed outside of the lab)?

Cheers!

[Moonman62]

I seem to recall this being a conservative website, myself. The conservative viewpoint on the matter prevails by default.

I think that being true and correct is the conservative viewpoint. Claiming that you prevail by default, even if you're wrong, is an insult to conservatism and FR.

[grey_whiskers]

Constrained meaning contributes to clarity and coherence and minimizes opportunities for obfuscation and sophistry.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'

Cheers!