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To: WildTurkey
You used the same mis-statement that the infamous "sticker" used, "only a theory" by implying that since it was "only a theory" it did not have full support of the scientific community.
Don't give me that "innocent what did I do, post", you did that knowing full well you were bearing false witness.


Listen to yourself! "implying that since it was "only a theory" it did not have full support of the scientific community." Since when has "full support of the scientific community" made a rat's ass in determining what is fact and what is theory? Is science some kind of democratic process in which the idea with the greatest number of votes wins?

By the way, I have no idea what the "sticker" is.

Oh, and you've yet to answer my question. How in the hardy hell can you run evolution through the scientific method machine and call it anything more than a (fill in whatever you'd like here)?
866 posted on 02/08/2005 8:49:10 PM PST by Jaysun (Nefarious deeds for hire.)
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To: rantblogger; doug from upland
Scientists find missing link between whale and its closest relative, the hippo


870 posted on 02/08/2005 8:52:09 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl (OMGIIHIHOIIC ping list)
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To: Jaysun
By the way, I have no idea what the "sticker" is.

Are you serious? That was the major issue for the creationists in 2004!

871 posted on 02/08/2005 8:52:19 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: Jaysun

873 posted on 02/08/2005 8:54:44 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: Jaysun; RadioAstronomer; From many - one.; Ichneumon; shubi; narby; WildTurkey; ...

ok, I'll bite:

one of the principal tests of the utility/viability of a theory (an explanation of available data) is its accuracy as a predictive model for data not available when the theory is coined.

Evolutionary theory has been confirmed as a useful predictor thousands of times by the biological and other physical sciences.

Creation "theory" cannot claim even ONE such confirmation.

Given the history of this (and many other CREVO threads), I sincerely doubt this data set shall make any change in your stance. So be it.

It would be useful to me, and the others here, if you would deign to clearly define what you would consider sufficient proof of evolutionary theory's utility/viability/scientific accuracy. After years of battling leftists in political debate, I have no love to spare for anyone's propensity to use mobile goalposts in a debate of science, so answer the question definitively and finally. After all, you know where WE stand - where do you?


887 posted on 02/08/2005 9:09:22 PM PST by King Prout (Remember John Adam!)
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