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To: Dog Gone
"The sticker was a simplistic attempt to place scientific theory below actual fact, and that was dishonest."

Scientific theories are below actual facts.

Otherwise they would be called, well 'facts'.

To claim otherwise is dishonest.

84 posted on 12/19/2006 7:05:00 PM PST by GourmetDan
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To: GourmetDan
Scientific theories are below actual facts.

Otherwise they would be called, well 'facts'.

To claim otherwise is dishonest.


Sorry to have to disagree with you. On this point, I think Heinlein said it best.

Piling up facts is not science--science is facts-and-theories. Facts alone have limited use and lack meaning: a valid theory organizes them into far greater usefulness.

A powerful theory not only embraces old facts and new but also discloses unsuspected facts [Heinlein 1980:480-481].


88 posted on 12/19/2006 7:12:28 PM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: GourmetDan

LOL, you've already set out on this thread that you believe science to be an unnatural approach toward evaluating reality.

No discussion with you is worth pursuing, and I'm sure you feel likewise.


93 posted on 12/19/2006 7:28:49 PM PST by Dog Gone
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