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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
"that a distinctive role of science is the falsification of incorrect theories"

1. You wouldn't know science if it bit your witch doctor in the butt.

2. You are a foolish little person who argues for the sake of argument.

3. The quote above is the ramblings of a five year-old.

If you ever want me to respond to you again, please offer some scientific evidence to support your own position. What I think you were grasping for in your quote above is that scientists are professional skeptics and that they demand evidence of some thing's existence before believing it exists. This leads to scientists questioning the foundation of a new theory. Yes they sometimes disprove a theory, by proving it is false using their own evidence. Ethical scientists NEVER "falsify" anything. You need to look up the word "falsify".

Magic is the belief that you can cause things to happen in the material world using supernatural means, and communicate with the dead. "Magic" words and phrases are used called spells. You believe in magic as the origin of life. You feel comfortable defending magic and attacking science.

You are a very primitive thinker, not unlike the ancient Babylonians who wrote the story you accept as your cosmology.

As much as I feel sorry for you, I feel much sorrier for the mother in whose basement you reside.

285 posted on 06/23/2008 8:26:55 AM PDT by Soliton (Investigate, study, learn, then express an opinion)
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To: Soliton
that a distinctive role of science is the falsification of incorrect theories

1. You wouldn't know science if it bit your witch doctor in the butt.

2. You are a foolish little person who argues for the sake of argument.

3. The quote above is the ramblings of a five year-old.

If you ever want me to respond to you again, please offer some scientific evidence to support your own position. What I think you were grasping for in your quote above is that scientists are professional skeptics and that they demand evidence of some thing's existence before believing it exists. This leads to scientists questioning the foundation of a new theory. Yes they sometimes disprove a theory, by proving it is false using their own evidence. Ethical scientists NEVER “falsify” anything. You need to look up the word “falsify”.

Magic is the belief that you can cause things to happen in the material world using supernatural means, and communicate with the dead. “Magic” words and phrases are used called spells. You believe in magic as the origin of life. You feel comfortable defending magic and attacking science.

You are a very primitive thinker, not unlike the ancient Babylonians who wrote the story you accept as your cosmology.

As much as I feel sorry for you, I feel much sorrier for the mother in whose basement you reside.

286 posted on 06/23/2008 8:32:04 AM PDT by Soliton (Investigate, study, learn, then express an opinion)
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