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To: ml1954
Are you aware of how stupid your statement is?

What is stupid is saying to question a scientific theory you must do it from a scientific perspective (you must play the game by our rules, that way we always win). That is both stupid and dishonest. You can challenge the very basis of the assumptions themselves and question their correlation with reality. The science of the past is riddled with logical fallacies, as an example.
448 posted on 09/09/2005 6:44:41 PM PDT by microgood
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To: microgood
What is stupid is saying to question a scientific theory you must do it from a scientific perspective (you must play the game by our rules, that way we always win). That is both stupid and dishonest. You can challenge the very basis of the assumptions themselves and question their correlation with reality. The science of the past is riddled with logical fallacies, as an example.

First, playing by the rules. What rules would you have science play by? Biblical scholarship? Science is built on specific rules and methods, and its not going to change them unless it can be shown that they do not produce results. You may not agree with the results, but you can't just say they are wrong.

Second, how do you know there are (or were) any "logical fallacies" in science? Because science found the errors and corrected them, perhaps?

It sounds like you disagree with what science (evolution in particular) has come up with. So, you are out to destroy the scientific method, or at least people's trust in that method, for your own ends. If you destroy science, then where will you be?

I asked this question earlier, but got no good answer: Kept up on your fencing lessons? The folks with scimitars are coming, and it is only our science and technology that keeps them at bay. What will do you do if you destroy that?

450 posted on 09/09/2005 6:56:44 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Is this a good tagline?)
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