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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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To: Thatcherite
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.

I am not the one who claimed that evolutionism is comparable to mathematics; quite the opposite.

149 posted on 10/05/2005 11:22:51 AM PDT by connectthedots
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