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To: Gumlegs
1. A theory must suggest new lines of research.
2. A theory must be capable of falsification.

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Is that all? Where did you get these "tests?" Have they been empirically tested so we know for certain if a theory passes these tests, the theory meets the criteria of being "scientific?" How do you know falsification is absolutely necessary before an idea can be considered "scientific?" We cannot falsify any idea regarding the finite or infinite. Should we cease work in establishing a periodic table of elements since it entails an unfalsifiable idea?

The capacity for falsification can always be created by the imagination. The disintegration of particle matter and nonexistence of intelligence and intelligibility would be a fairly firm falsification of intelligent design. But perhaps you think science is merely about proofs.

334 posted on 04/15/2006 9:17:21 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew

There you go again, Fester. You don't like the rules. You don't know why they're there. Fine. Either learn why we have them and what they mean, or forget them. But if you want to forget them, forget about convincing anyone who actually knows what science is that what you are spouting is science.


354 posted on 04/16/2006 10:07:02 AM PDT by Gumlegs
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