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To: Coyoteman
you of course realize that no theory can be proved

Come now, tell the rest of your story: that the very word "truth" must be expunged from science. For instance, we are not to use the word "true" when speaking about evolutionary science, isn't that so?

170 posted on 05/26/2008 4:16:24 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Come now, tell the rest of your story: that the very word "truth" must be expunged from science. For instance, we are not to use the word "true" when speaking about evolutionary science, isn't that so?

So that the lurkers get an accurate view of what I have posted previously, here it is again.

This is not something I just made up; it is from a CalTech website dealing with physics:

Truth: This is a word best avoided entirely in physics [and science] except when placed in quotes, or with careful qualification. Its colloquial use has so many shades of meaning from ‘it seems to be correct’ to the absolute truths claimed by religion, that it’s use causes nothing but misunderstanding. Someone once said "Science seeks proximate (approximate) truths." Others speak of provisional or tentative truths. Certainly science claims no final or absolute truths. Source.


180 posted on 05/26/2008 8:57:31 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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