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To: taxesareforever
How about NO theories? Just give us the facts.

Piling up facts is not science--science is facts-and-theories. Facts alone have limited use and lack meaning: a valid theory organizes them into far greater usefulness.

A powerful theory not only embraces old facts and new but also discloses unsuspected facts [Heinlein 1980:480-481].


288 posted on 12/24/2006 8:27:03 AM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman

You would get a more intelligent response talking to a brick wall.


289 posted on 12/24/2006 8:53:34 AM PST by Central Scrutiniser (Pro Evolution, Pro Stem Cell Research, Pro Science, Pro Free Thought, and Conservative)
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To: Coyoteman
A powerful theory not only embraces old facts and new but also discloses unsuspected facts [Heinlein 1980:480-481].

How in the world can you equate "facts" into a "theory"? The only fact in the theory of evolution is the item being considered. Everything else is conjecture.

295 posted on 12/24/2006 2:48:09 PM PST by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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