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To: ICE-FLYER
The Evolution THEORY is just that, stop teaching it as rote fact and I do not have near the problem with it.

If that's the level of your understanding of the scientific meaning of the word "theory," then I can certainly understand your confusion.

You're confusing common useage with the different meaning when used in a scientific context. Don't feel bad, this is a very common error.

86 posted on 08/01/2005 12:15:17 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: highball
If that's the level of your understanding of the scientific meaning of the word "theory," then I can certainly understand your confusion. You're confusing common useage with the different meaning when used in a scientific context. Don't feel bad, this is a very common error.

LOL! I don't "feel bad" Highball. Nor should you "confuse" what I am saying. When a teacher would teach to students that the theory is fact and not a theory in the process of being fully explored, proven and sustained then they have lost their way. IS this not true of science? Does it not demand proving of a theory BEFORE saying it is fact?

Many FACTS in science are known and provable, and they lend credibility to arguments "suggesting" a path to exactness, but "evidence to suggest" is NOT evidence of fact.

297 posted on 08/01/2005 3:55:59 PM PDT by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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