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To: Dante Alighieri
The problem is that the school boards try to misrepresent the definiton of a scientific theory as "conjecture" or a "guess."

No, the problem is that evols get all bent out of shape when they feel the least bit of threat to their system of belief.

Evolution is a theory. Why saying that gets evols all bent out of shape is beyond me. But you've helped to make my point.

Thank you and have a great day.

318 posted on 08/23/2006 10:12:51 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: MEGoody

Evolution is not a belief. A belief, as summarized in Coyoteman's famous list, is any cognitive perception held to be true. However, science does not hold any scientific entity to be true; at no point are scientists absolutely certain of something. They have confidence levels, in which there are increasing degrees of certainty at the accuracy of the theory, but at no point is it held to be infalliable. This allows science to remain tentative and subject to change and self-correction. That it does not hold itself to be absolutely true makes it, by definition, not a belief.

Evolution is a scientific theory, a well-supported explanation of a broad range of related phenomena, observed either directly or indirectly.


319 posted on 08/23/2006 2:19:21 PM PDT by Dante Alighieri
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