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To: Right Wing Professor
...ways to deal with visitors who reject settled precepts of science...

s/settled precepts of science/dogma/ig;

7 posted on 09/20/2005 7:09:08 AM PDT by thulldud (It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
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To: thulldud
s/settled precepts of science/dogma/ig;

You've lifted a phrase without respect to its context. The "settled precepts of science" include the Scientific Method...a self-correcting discipline of research. The phrase does not mean that the book is closed by any means on the theories of our origins. As we accumulate more data, hypotheses and theories are refined, redefined, or discarded as needed.

26 posted on 09/20/2005 7:19:28 AM PDT by Aracelis
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