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To: LeGrande
Cause and Effect isn't just a philosophical proposition as everything in existence is theorized to be the effect or results of energy and matter arising from....no cause whatsoever.

And if you care to point the famous double slit experiment then it must be noted that we get answers according to how we ask them, even as physicist John Wheeler commented,

“It is wrong to think of that past [ascribed to a quantum phenomenon]
as “already existing” in all detail. The past is theory. The past has no existence
except as it is recorded in the present. By deciding what questions our quantum
registering equipment shall put in the present we have an undeniable choice in
what we have the right to say about the past.
—1980
If “ In science there are no proofs only falsifications....”, then the finding of science should not be used as proof of anything, only as an opinion from a biased position.

78 posted on 01/12/2009 10:21:33 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
Cause and Effect isn't just a philosophical proposition as everything in existence is theorized to be the effect or results of energy and matter arising from....no cause whatsoever.

(E=MC2) is not cause and effect. E and M are the same.

And if you care to point the famous double slit experiment then it must be noted that we get answers according to how we ask them, even as physicist John Wheeler commented,

Yes, force is mass, waves are particles, no cause and effect needed. The law of cause and effect is a philosophical argument, not a scientific law.

If “ In science there are no proofs only falsifications....”, then the finding of science should not be used as proof of anything, only as an opinion from a biased position.

That is probably accurate enough : ) Science has no proof at all. It simply has theories that have not been falsified. Very, very good theories I might add : )

102 posted on 01/12/2009 10:56:46 AM PST by LeGrande
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