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To: hawkaw
Establishing a definition for an abstraction is a worthwhile endeavor--but won't be achieved through rhetorical bludgeoning or spamlisting. There will always be competing defintions--words like "theory" both denote and connote many things.

If the list is an offering for discussion, wonderful. Is it? This list is not an authority, in other words. And attempts to insist upon its authority will be regularly challenged.

You know, all this "close-minded" stuff and "free enquiry" and all in the halls of science...I noticed that there was no squawking about the stunning thing that happened to the prez of Harvard these past few weeks, all for posing a non-pc question concerning women in the sciences and math.

Free enquiry met an irrational threat, and fell down dead.

But, since radical feminists are not the religious, not a squawk, squeak or fuss from the Keepers of the Holy Altar of Science who regularly inhabit the evo threads.

Makes you wonder if the agenda is pro-science, or just anti-religious.

37 posted on 03/01/2006 5:55:00 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle
If the list is an offering for discussion, wonderful. Is it? This list is not an authority, in other words. And attempts to insist upon its authority will be regularly challenged.

If you read the list of definitions, right at the top it states:

Definitions (from a google search, with additions from this thread)

My initial list was modified by suggestions made by many posters on that thread. You can still go to that thread and make suggestions for how you think the definitions should read.
43 posted on 03/01/2006 7:37:20 AM PST by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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