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To: bondserv
.Science does not lay much stock in deductive logic.

Liberal inductivism is rampant.

I asked you to show me one stunk up, lonely case of a deductive proof anywhere in a natural science journal, and you failed that task. Induction is overwhelmingly the mode of reasoning science employs. Employing inductive reasoning in a sharply critical way makes you a scientist, not a liberal.

206 posted on 12/08/2003 12:12:05 AM PST by donh
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To: donh
"Finding a modern cylindroleberid in the Silurian clashes with molecular data, which suggest that the group and related families originated relatively recently, says evolutionary biologist Todd Oakley of the University of California, Santa Barbara."
209 posted on 12/08/2003 8:14:48 AM PST by bondserv (Alignment is critical.)
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