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To: webstersII
Nope. But I know someone who has. And as for whether or not Mongolia exists, there is a testable, verifiable hypothesis.

So is common descent. So is the fauna of the Devonian.

He was convinced of what he was saying but he agreed that since we couldn't test and verify the hypothesis there was no way he could draw an absolute conclusion.

I'm not going to bat for anonymous Princeton physicists. You can still get your hammer and chisel and go check out Devonian strata for yourself. Or not. I have. But don't give me 'unverifiable, unreproducible' when the only impediment is an unwillingness to go see for yourself.

317 posted on 10/19/2005 7:48:19 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
Behe seems to have a pre-medieval view of science. In particular, Oresme argues that standard astrology is baloney because the planetary periods are almost certainly incomensurate.
320 posted on 10/19/2005 8:01:07 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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