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To: Jandy on Genesis

Are things so bad that they no longer teach the scientific method? The difference between an idea, a hypothesis, a theory, and law? And that even some scientific laws apply in a very narrow scope, e.g., Newtonian physics.


4 posted on 03/13/2013 4:26:51 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: ConservativeInPA

We don’t need the scientific method anymore, doncha see, because everything is so “settled.”


5 posted on 03/13/2013 4:28:36 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: ConservativeInPA

>>And that even some scientific laws apply in a very narrow scope, e.g., Newtonian physics.<<

Be careful using such terms as “scientific theory.” LOTS of people here think it is a “guess all grown up” (as opposed to a structured construct which explains a large body of data). And we have scientific methods to “probe” a Scientific Theory.

And AGW is, indeed, a guess, since it meets exactly zero criteria of a Scientific Theory (unless you count funding for starting at a conclusion and going backwards from there).

But I didn’t say that.

Because I wasn’t here.

Really.


8 posted on 03/13/2013 5:19:11 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Establishment Republicans don't like that totalitarian thing unless it is THEIR totalitarian thing!)
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