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To: PatrickHenry
"I set up a null hypothesis and the program rejected that hypothesis using the new data with a probability level of 10 to the minus 17th. In science, you don't get any more conclusive than that. It says that the hypothesis of no interbreeding is so grossly incompatible with the data, that you can reject it."

A very neat illustration of the self-correcting mechanism in scientific methodology, and Popper's principle of "falsifiability". I have marvelled to witness, on another thread here, that a number of folks don't seem to understand the scientific meaning of 'theory,' and insist on using the term in its vernacular sense. Theory of Evolution is not controversial outside the US (at least, not in the developed western world), it is simply subject to increasing refinement as more data points are accumulated, as is any scientific theory.

5 posted on 02/10/2006 3:22:37 AM PST by ToryHeartland
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To: ToryHeartland
A very neat illustration of the self-correcting mechanism in scientific methodology...

Well said.

13 posted on 02/10/2006 4:02:24 AM PST by jalisco555 ("Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us and pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill)
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To: ToryHeartland

The theory of evolution is not controversial here. For lack of education or whatever, some people refuse to accept it. But their lack of any provable alternative and ability to formulate one does not make evolution controversial. Among the rest of the thinking and educated America, evolution is as accepted as the theory of gravity. IMHO, of course.


18 posted on 02/10/2006 4:14:09 AM PST by DaGman
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To: ToryHeartland

Science is like the weather, if you don't like what it says now, just wait a few minutes.


26 posted on 02/10/2006 4:53:25 AM PST by wolfcreek
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To: ToryHeartland

Once again the rest of the world would do well to follow the example of the United States.


52 posted on 02/10/2006 6:32:12 AM PST by em2vn
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To: ToryHeartland
More smoke and tapdancing.

Darwinism is more deeply in chaos than it has ever been. Darwins' grand mullahs of materialism keep trying to bury Gould's "hopeful monsters," recognizing as they do, that to recognize them is to admit evolution is bankrupt and wholly unable to explain anything but small variations in species.

98 posted on 02/10/2006 4:15:20 PM PST by JCEccles
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