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To: navyguy; Bruinator
“...It is after all a theory.”

Just for the sake of my young Earth creationist friends, I need to stop you before you continue to lean on this fallacy in this particular argument-

the·o·ry [thee-uh-ree, theer-ee] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural -ries. 1. a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity.
2. a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.
3. Mathematics. a body of principles, theorems, or the like, belonging to one subject: number theory.
4. the branch of a science or art that deals with its principles or methods, as distinguished from its practice: music theory.
5. a particular conception or view of something to be done or of the method of doing it; a system of rules or principles.

6. contemplation or speculation.
7. guess or conjecture.

The 'contemplation/speculation, guess/conjecture definitions are only two of the definitions for 'theory' and are not the context used when discussing scientific theorems.

47 posted on 07/30/2007 2:43:39 PM PDT by mnehring (Ron Paul is as much of a Constitutionalist as Fred Phelps is a Christian)
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To: mnehrling

Really, thats not what science taught me in school. Hypothesis - theory - law.


52 posted on 07/30/2007 2:47:14 PM PDT by Bruinator
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