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To: metmom
"extrapolation is not science."

Sorry, but extrapolation is a process in mathematics used to find the value of a function outside its tabulated values. This is done as in interpolation by assuming that over a small range of x the function may be closely approximated by a polynomial or some other readily computed function. Any of the interpolation formulas can be used, therefore, and the desired value of x substituted in them.

40 posted on 11/16/2009 8:44:15 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law

I find it more than amusing that evos use math to support the ToE when it suits them and dismiss math when it indicates that the ToE is improbable simply from a statistical perspective.


41 posted on 11/16/2009 8:49:37 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Natural Law
Sorry, but extrapolation is a process in mathematics used to find the value of a function outside its tabulated values.

Fine. It's math. It still isn't science.

Haven't you heard that math and science aren't the same thing?

44 posted on 11/16/2009 8:50:42 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

http://www.answers.com/topic/extrapolation


45 posted on 11/16/2009 8:51:04 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: Natural Law
Sorry, but extrapolation is a process in mathematics used to find the value of a function outside its tabulated values. This is done as in interpolation by assuming that over a small range of x the function may be closely approximated by a polynomial or some other readily computed function. Any of the interpolation formulas can be used, therefore, and the desired value of x substituted in them.

I'm curious. Since these aren't your words, was it your intention to give readers the impression the reasoning contained therein is yours?

52 posted on 11/16/2009 9:20:35 PM PST by csense
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To: Natural Law

BUT, as has been pointed in various threads, mathematics is NOT science. Science can prove Nothing, while math can. Science is testing of hypotheses, discarding those that do not line up with the data that are observed.


58 posted on 11/17/2009 4:58:40 AM PST by RoadGumby (Ask me about Ducky)
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