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To: Thatcherite

Which specific absolutely unambiguous statements of science are you referring to?

The science I know of is CONSTANTLY changing its story in all areas of observation as our tools become more accurate and effective.


83 posted on 09/18/2006 2:31:05 PM PDT by srweaver (Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
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To: srweaver
Which specific absolutely unambiguous statements of science are you referring to? The science I know of is CONSTANTLY changing its story in all areas of observation as our tools become more accurate and effective.

That is a misunderstanding of the refining process of science. Details change at the edge of our knowledge, but well-established central theories (the example under discussion being evolution) are supported by untold millions of data points, 150 years of observations and attempted falsifications. Relativity replaced Newtonian mechanics, yet for 99.99% of practical purposes Newtonian Mechanics remains true; how could it be otherwise? Newton's work survived hundreds of years of practical application and observations without anyone noticing that it was incomplete.

Take modern genome sequencing. Practically every way that the genome data *could* have come out would have falsified common-descent. Case closed. Done and dusted. Evolution would have been dead and buried, indeed creationists predicted before the molecular data came in that it would falsify common descent. Yet what actually happened was that the genome data for every species that we sequence confirms the very precise predictions of common-descent, in spades. That is why even prominent IDers like Behe and Denton endorse common descent of life on earth; they know that the data in that area is unambiguous.

88 posted on 09/18/2006 2:40:24 PM PDT by Thatcherite (I'm PatHenry I'm the real PatHenry all the other PatHenrys are just imitators)
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