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To: RightWingNilla
Oh, and by the way, absolutely everything in the universe is proof of intelligence.

It's been said before: A proposal that professes to explain all relevant data, yet predicts nothing in particular, and which will accommodate any data that may hereafter be discovered, is a proposition that cannot be tested or falsified, has no genuine explanatory power at all, and therefore doesn't qualify to be termed a scientific theory.

713 posted on 03/19/2004 6:07:25 PM PST by PatrickHenry (A compassionate evolutionist.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Start with what Patrick Henry said in #713.

Any hypothesis not grounded in facts, supportable with evidence, or falsifiable through testing is utterly meaningless.

714 posted on 03/19/2004 6:14:20 PM PST by balrog666 (A public service post.)
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To: PatrickHenry; balrog666; js1138
A proposal that professes to explain all relevant data, yet predicts nothing in particular, and which will accommodate any data that may hereafter be discovered, is a proposition that cannot be tested or falsified, has no genuine explanatory power at all, and therefore doesn't qualify to be termed a scientific theory.

In most respects this description fits the Theory of Evolution to a "T."

717 posted on 03/19/2004 6:29:15 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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