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To: Lucky Dog
Theories are not facts as they can be discarded

This is an inappropriate distinction. In science facts, like theories, CAN be discarded, and often enough are. A good working definition of a "scientific fact" might be, "a well confirmed observation". But even a well confirmed observation might be disconfirmed by later observations. For instance an inaccurate count of human chromosome was accepted as factual for some time, but had to be revised when the employment of improved stains gave a different count.

692 posted on 04/18/2006 9:36:12 AM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Stultis; Lucky Dog

Actually, facts are much more likely than theories to be discarded. Theories generally become limited cases in more inclusive theories.


694 posted on 04/18/2006 9:45:03 AM PDT by js1138 (~()):~)>)
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