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To: Smokin' Joe

Given your shocking lack of understanding of the state of science regarding relativity, perhaps you shoudl start with the basics.

>>Do you even knwo [sic] what "theory" *means?*

> Yes!

Clearly, the accurate answer is "no." Here, read up:

http://wilstar.com/theories.htm


48 posted on 10/12/2005 8:28:24 PM PDT by orionblamblam ("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
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To: orionblamblam
"A theory is more like a scientific law than a hypothesis..."

Not a law. It may be accepted as a working premise for the purpose of making other hypotheses, but it has not been proven.

I understand fully, I AM a scientist.

The writer there states that theories are more complex than Laws. Not necessarily, but the simpler the premise, the easier it is to isolate it experimentally and prove it. Thus, laws tend to be simple and monotopical.

However, the theory of evolution has a simple premise. That through a variety of mechanisms, mutation, natural selection, etc., new Kindoms, Phyla, Classes, Orders, Genae, and species have developed, all from a common ancestral stock.

Were there one modern, naturally occuring, example of new species development, just one, then I might concede possibility.

Not, mind you the subspecies hairsplitting being done among those creatures capable of producing viable offspring, but a new species, with unique characteristics, capable of producing viable offspring only with its own kind, which posess those same characteristics.

Even at this fundamental level, there is no contender.

While extinction is well documented, and has occurred far, far, more often than not, that is not evolution, just dying out.

Evolution remains a theory, unproven.

49 posted on 10/12/2005 8:46:18 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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