Rather, the hypothesis that the Earth is flat is disproved. Science can disprove things easily enough--find evidence that renders a hypothesis incorrect. E.g.:
Theory: Literalist Biblical Creation
Hypothesis: If the Solar System is 6000 +/- 1000 years old, then Literalist Biblical Creation is supported.
Method: Radiologically date meteorites.
Observation: Meteorites are > 7000 years old.
Result: The hypothesis is disproved and the theory must be revised or discarded.
Coyoteman, did I do that right? It looks like I just rendered obsolete the entire field of Creationism, and that's not something I'd do lightly. And I haven't done any research design since the halcyon school days.
(On topic, I don't think it was evolution what done in Huckabee. He never really had a chance.)
[[Method: Radiologically date meteorites.
Observation: Meteorites are > 7000 years old.]]
Can you prove they are the dates that show up? No- they can’t- so their assumption is just that- an assumption, and hterefore nothign is disproven- Radiological dating methods are known to be accurate only to about < 7000 years- beyond that they are not accurate nor can they be proven to be accurate and MUST rely on assumptions- Are you saying then that their assumptions trump our assumptions then? On what basis then?
Nothing can disprove creation in the minds of creationists. It is a belief that was not arrived at logically and through scientific evidence, so logic and scientific evidence won't alter that belief.
“Coyoteman, did I do that right? It looks like I just rendered obsolete the entire field of Creationism, and that’s not something I’d do lightly. And I haven’t done any research design since the halcyon school days.”
You are obviously unaware of “old-earth creationism.” I suggest you take a look at Hugh Ross’s “Reasons To Believe” website at http://www.reasons.org
Hugh Ross is a PhD astronomer who has studied the Bible and other holy books and come to the conclusion that the Bible and no other holy book is completely consistent with what we know now about the universe and its origin. But he says that the whole issue of six literal 24-hour days is really just a mistranslation of the original Hebrew text.
Ross has identified literally dozens and dozens of physical constants and parameters that had to be “just right” for life as we know it to exist. If some of those constants varied by even a tiny fraction of one percent, stars and planets would have never formed, for example.