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To: SampleMan
"You appear to understand how everything is SUPPOSED to work."

I gave you how it is.

"when I think that the scientists don't have enough evidence to be presenting their views as public guidance.

You're free to addrress any of the particulars as you would like to.

" I know that "undisputed" and "somewhat possible" can both accurately describe the same theory "

Theories are logical constructs supported by observable evidence. If you have evidense contradicting any theory, you can present it. That evidense and you claim that it invalidates the theory will be evaluated on it's scientific merit. "Undisputed" is a worthless term in science. "Somewhat possible" is a phrase that never applies to a theory. It only applies to hypothesis. In order to reach attain the status of theory, there must be strong evidence. A general theory can only be modified to a more general theory that includes the old theory as a limiting case.

49 posted on 11/16/2006 2:54:07 PM PST by spunkets
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To: spunkets
I gave you how it is.

Utopian science, never muddled, never too confident, always objective, always open. If you aren't laughing yet, there's no hope for you.

You're free to address any of the particulars as you would like to.

Like a pilot telling his horrified passengers, "If you don't like the way I fly, come up here and do it yourself." Or perhaps it would be reasonable to expect scientists to stick not only to scientific method, but also to logical restraint about the uncertainty of their theories.

Every single scientific theory that has been shown to be inaccurate, had great evidence behind it, right up to the point where new evidence became available.

Is it really asking so much that scientists don't understate the possible unknowns and as yet unquantifiable variables in their conclussions?

51 posted on 11/16/2006 3:14:10 PM PST by SampleMan (Do not dispute the peacefulness of Islam, so as not to send Muslims into violent outrage.)
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