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To: Dog Gone
You can't test a scientific theory.

Um, what?

162 posted on 12/27/2004 6:07:40 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon

You can test components of a theory. You can test a hypothesis. But a theory is an explanation of all the related observations and can't be independently tested. You can challenge it only by pointing to a piece of data which the theory doesn't adequately explain.


285 posted on 12/28/2004 7:38:12 AM PST by Dog Gone
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