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To: Amelia
"As a science teacher, my biggest complaint with it is that it misrepresents the scientific meaning of theory, thereby demonstrating that the Cobb County school board doesn't know the difference between a theory and a hypothesis, and further ensuring that Cobb County students won't either."
True. But I think the part that bothers me the most is:

Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things.
435 posted on 01/13/2005 7:54:53 PM PST by Trinity_Tx (Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believin as we already do)
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To: Trinity_Tx
Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things.

the·o·ry   Audio pronunciation of "Theory" ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (th-r, thîr)
n. pl. the·o·ries
  1. A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.

Scientifically speaking, if any facts or observations contradict a theory, the theory must then be revised or discarded.

Therefore, currently, all the known facts support the theory of evolution.

439 posted on 01/13/2005 7:59:53 PM PST by Amelia
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