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To: Natural Law
There is no proof. Just evidence that supports or contradicts the theory. A good theory explains all the evidence consistently.

What theories do you consider proven? And how would they be adjusted by contrary data?

157 posted on 10/27/2009 8:10:21 PM PDT by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
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To: allmendream
"What theories do you consider proven?"

A precise use of the language is required to answer the question. A theory, in the emperical scientific sense of the word, is an analytic structure designed to explain a set of empirical observations. Once proven the structure ceases to be a theory and becomes a principle.

That being said, the theory of relativity (E=MC^2) is pretty well established by the explosion of the atomic bombs.

162 posted on 10/27/2009 8:35:27 PM PDT by Natural Law
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