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To: blueblazes
The only "proof" in science is being able to reproduce a result or to predict a result.

The reason I posted those links was so that you could improve your understanding of how science works. Nothing in science is "proved." Theories can be dis-proved, but never proved. Theories are supported by making predictions which observations then demonstrates are accurate. That's been the unbroken history of evolution. But if you want to cling to your personal -- and incorrect -- conception of science, that is your decision

Oh, for your further information -- should you care -- there are numerous sciences that rely on observation, not reproducing results in a lab. For example: astronomy, geology, anthropology, paleontology, climatology, archeology, and cosmology. And of course, evolution.

One further thought (and a few links), then I'll leave you to do as you like: Evolution makes numerous predictions, which always work out:
All present and fossilized animals found should conform to the standard evolutionary tree. And they do.
Fossilized intermediates should appear in the "correct" chronological order on the standard tree.
Many organisms should retain vestigial structures as structural remnants of lost functions.
Species that are more closely related should share a greater portion of their DNA.. Excerpt:

[A]n hypothesis of evolutionary relationships is provided by the fossil record, which indicates when particular types of organisms evolved. In addition, by examining the anatomical structures of fossils and of modern species, we can infer how closely species are related to each other. When degree of genetic similarity is compared with our ideas of evolutionary relationships based on fossils, a close match is evident.

64 posted on 05/31/2005 1:39:56 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry

That is just a bunch of BS. And you can stop talking down to me, Perfesser. Obviously any real science can be proven. We know that electricity works because we have actual inventions that harness it and prove that it works repeatedly. We know that the atom exists because we've split it. We don't know that evolution is true because we have seen NO PROOF of it. Proof is very simple and only exists in one of two ways. You can either re-produce a physical result or you predict a result. A theory ceases to be a theory once you can predict (consistently, not once, of course) results based on it, or re-produce physical experiments from it. So please, come off the high horse. Evolution for most of you folks is merely a substitute for a religious belief. That's fine with me, but don't tell me about the proof as THERE IS NONE. Maybe if our species continues to exist for a sufficient length of time, there will be proof, but right now, it's just part of a belief system.


68 posted on 05/31/2005 1:44:50 PM PDT by blueblazes
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