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To: unlearner
I was under the impression that keeping an open mind was the most scientific thing someone could do.

Science makes progress by throwing discredited ideas away when it's time. That's why some ideas don't get equal time with some others no matter how fair the idea of equal time may sound. Most of the theories that have ever been advanced don't get equal time because they were wrong.

There's nothing out there as a competing theory in science vying with evolution as an explanation of the diversity of life on Earth. That contest ended. Some people outside of science don't like it.

1,053 posted on 01/26/2005 5:18:55 PM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro

If the contest ended, half the people here do not know it. That may be your point, but what makes us not scientific?

Perhaps "science" is just a convenient label for what you agree with. Then everyone else can be "unscientific" and therefore wrong by default.

Please provide your definition of "science".

And do you feel that only science should be taught in public schools?


1,054 posted on 01/26/2005 6:46:51 PM PST by unlearner
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