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To: b_sharp
As pointed out by many, there are no sciences that are '100% proven'. This is true of physics and math as well. Quantum physics has many questions and Godel has shown our inability to prove that math is self consistent.,/I>

I doubt that many of those scientists would care to cast in the same light as evolutionists. After all, they can actually establish a degree of proof that evolution cannot, nor likely ever will even come close to establishing. To associate evolution with the high degree of credibility in mathematics and physics is an insult to those sciences.

117 posted on 10/05/2005 10:50:15 AM PDT by connectthedots
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To: connectthedots
After all, they can actually establish a degree of proof that evolution cannot, nor likely ever will even come close to establishing. To associate evolution with the high degree of credibility in mathematics and physics is an insult to those sciences.

Bull. I do quantum mechanics for a living. Evolution is every bit as credible as q.m. (both are 99+%)

119 posted on 10/05/2005 10:52:07 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: connectthedots

What qualifications do you have to pronounce on the solidity of various branches of science?


123 posted on 10/05/2005 10:56:12 AM PDT by From many - one.
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To: connectthedots
To associate evolution with the high degree of credibility in mathematics and physics is an insult to those sciences.

When you come out with this stuff you just expose that you don't know anything about science. Wishing things about ToE because you have a religious aversion to it doesn't change the facts. I know lots of professional physicists, and I have never met one who thought that mainstream biology (in the form of ToE) was less well founded than their own speciality. If anything most physicists who have examined the data would say the opposite, that ToE is amongst the best founded of all human scientific knowledge.

Maths OTOH is qualitatively different from *all* the natural sciences, because it doesn't have to cope with the natural world so it can deal with concepts like "axioms" and "proofs". Natural sciences cannot do that. The real world is a messy place for both physicists and biologists; remarkable then that they come up with so many successful predictions and failed falsifications.

136 posted on 10/05/2005 11:04:37 AM PDT by Thatcherite (Conservative and Biblical Literalist are not synonymous)
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