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To: doc30
That being said, the only thing science can do is disprove. Thus far, evolution has not been scientifically falsified.

Science does not disprove anything. Nor does it prove anything. It simply collects data and tries to determine if the data supports a theory or not. But this is inductive reasoning, and inductive reasoning is not a proof.

79 posted on 12/19/2006 6:58:41 PM PST by stripes1776
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To: stripes1776
Science does not disprove anything. Nor does it prove anything. It simply collects data and tries to determine if the data supports a theory or not. But this is inductive reasoning, and inductive reasoning is not a proof.

Fundamentally wrong. One of the core elements of science is to construct a falsifiable hypothesis that can be tested. It is not simply fitting data to a theory, but using a theory to predict what data will be found next or what pattern future data will hold. If future observations contradict the theory used to predict them, then the theory is re-evaluated. Hence, a theory can be disproven experimentally, but can never, ever be proven.

114 posted on 12/20/2006 5:22:52 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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