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To: John_Wheatley
" You are ignorant to the fact that science calls many things a theory when indeed it is accepted fact."

Don't embarrass yourself with such nonsense.

Theory is theory and fact is fact. Theories may include facts, but they still remain theories. "Accepted facts" are also merely theories. Facts do not require "acceptance". Facts are truths and exist independent of anybody's acceptance criteria.

While theories can be useful and appear definitive within observational limits that does not make them fact. It does make them useful for prediction, within constraints.

Newton had a theory of gravity. It was a fact that apples fell to the earth, but Newtons theory of gravity was not a fact, it was a model, an estimation, a tool. Newton's theory was later turned upside down by Einstein. Einstein is now in the process of being turned upside down by string theory.

Facts are not subject to later revision. Theories are.

Evolutionary theory is far more full of holes than Newton's theory of gravitation.

For you to believe evolution is a fact is merely religious zealotry on your part.

You have your religion, others have theirs.

71 posted on 02/07/2005 8:19:33 AM PST by Mark Felton (We are free because we are Christian. There is no other reason.)
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