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To: Dimensio; Echo Talon; CarolinaGuitarman
I love how creationists not only want to re-define words, when they do insist on pulling out the dictionary (as if that means anything in this context) they skip past the first couple definitions and jump right to the fourth or sixth one, pretending that those definitions somehow "trump" the first one!

Not only do they not understand how science works, they don't seem to know how a dictionary works, either....

108 posted on 01/03/2006 2:53:26 PM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: highball

I once used the same dictionary game that creationists use to "prove" that the Christian God is cruel and evil. For some reason they didn't accept it, even though I used the same reasoning that they did.


113 posted on 01/03/2006 2:59:19 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: highball; Coyoteman; Dimensio
the·o·ry Audio pronunciation of "theory" ( P )
Pronunciation Key (th-r, thîr)
n. pl. the·o·ries

1. A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.

Ok what do we have here a set a statements... just because someone with a degree says something its true? Do you believe Ward Churchill?

Widely accepted? It is widely accepted by liberals that that George W. Bush lied about WMD's is that statement true?

You know what Yogi Berra says about predictions...
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future

123 posted on 01/03/2006 3:03:50 PM PST by Echo Talon
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