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To: narby

This is simply a rephrasing of the same fallacy. In 1880, 99% of physicists believe light was propagated through a substance called Ether because they knew that a wave required a medium of propagation. These were all highly intelligent, highly knowledgeable men in their fields with impeccable credentials.

According to your criteria, nothing should ever have been done to question that assumption because all the great scientists of the day accepted it as fact.

Fortunately, unlike evolutionary biology, physics is an experimental science, and men actually went and looked for evidence of ether. When they couldn't find it, they turned to another mechanism to explain the observed propagation of light as a wave.


175 posted on 01/18/2005 12:30:49 PM PST by frgoff
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To: frgoff
According to your criteria, nothing should ever have been done to question that assumption because all the great scientists of the day accepted it as fact.

I encurage all creationists to genuinely study the subject and prove evolution did not occur using the scientific tools available. I.E. show that modern fossils actually occur in old fields, or any of the other evidence that might show that Evolution did not happen.

But the fact is that it's been tried, and failed. Over and over. Sorry.

But don't let that stop you. If you can actually prove that Evolution did not occur, you will win Nobel prizes and scientific grants for the rest of your life. Go for it if you really believe you're right.

183 posted on 01/18/2005 12:39:21 PM PST by narby (If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.)
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