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To: TheNailAuthority

>PS: (Shhh! Scientists at work)
>1994: Eggs are bad for your health.
>2004: No, sorry, we were wrong, they're not really that >bad after all.
>2014: Who knows?

True. Even Kepler's Law had to be modified for Relativity because of one bad observation - Mercury.


60 posted on 09/07/2004 2:20:03 PM PDT by trubolotta
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To: trubolotta
Even Kepler's laws had to be modified because of one bad observation

Exactly! Far from being something to criticize science for, this is an example of science at its best. Newton's laws were accepted for hundreds of years until evidence was found to refute them. Dalton's indivisible atomic theory was the basis of chemistry for a long time until J.J. Thompson discovered the electron. This is the entire essence of science. One bad observation can completely kill a theory. The same is certainly true of evolution. Creationists state that since we never see a cow turn into a person, that evolution can't be true. Actually, if we DID see cows turn into people, that would be an observation that would falsify evolution. Evolution predicts that large changes should not occur, but that many small changes can build up to produce large varieties of life. This is just one, admittedly unlikely, example of a prediction that could result in the falsification of evolution. The existence of such falifiablilty is what makes evolution a science. What falsifiable predictions does creationism make?

135 posted on 09/08/2004 5:29:33 AM PDT by stremba
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