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To: CyberCowboy777
You are so quick to try and remove the speck from some other's eye that in the process you only further lodge the plank in you own eye.

Well, gee, ditto. How constructive.

Neither side of this argument has presented in-refutable facts that prove beyond a doubt that one position is absolutely correct.

One side has presented facts aplenty, one side hasn't. Neither will ever prove anything.

Neither has completed the scientific method, so both are theories at test.

Non sequitur - the scientific method reaches no "completion".

And no matter the camp you inhabit I will wager you enjoy things that reinforce your prejudices.

Don't we all.

100 posted on 02/10/2003 4:44:14 PM PST by balrog666 (When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain)
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To: balrog666
Don't we all.

My point exactly!

at least one of them got it

101 posted on 02/10/2003 4:50:28 PM PST by CyberCowboy777 (Extremism in the Pursuit of Liberty is no Vice!)
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To: balrog666
One side has presented facts aplenty, one side hasn't

I am sorry I should have been much more clear (wow). Facts that prove a position.

You just don't get it do you? My statement was constructive on two levels and both seem to have gone over your head.

scientific method n. The principles and empirical processes of discovery and demonstration considered characteristic of or necessary for scientific investigation, generally involving the observation of phenomena, the formulation of a hypothesis concerning the phenomena, experimentation to demonstrate the truth or falseness of the hypothesis, and a conclusion that validates or modifies the hypothesis.

There is a conclusion that validates a theory, moving the theory out of the realm of thought and into fact. You forgetting or ignoring that step does not remove it from the process.

102 posted on 02/10/2003 4:59:00 PM PST by CyberCowboy777 (Extremism in the Pursuit of Liberty is no Vice!)
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