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To: muawiyah
Now, predict when the next major human/hominid speciation event will occur and how many genes will it involve.

Can we disprove theories of particle physics by failing to predict the next path a particle trace will take through a cloud chamber?

146 posted on 07/11/2008 4:08:40 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
The subatomic particle will or will not take a particular path. We can describe the path before hand through analysis of our evidentiary basis. That will include the mathematics describing everything that's relevant that's gone before.

When you describe the path before hand, then do the experiment, and a different path is taken, you failed to predict the path.

When it comes to discussions of DNA transformations that occurred in the distant past it's a stretch to call any of it "predictions". It's more like describing what happened than in predicting that which can happen in the future.

149 posted on 07/11/2008 4:15:26 PM PDT by muawiyah (We need a "Gastank For America" to win back Congress)
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