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To: Hank Kerchief
Fist of all, evolution is not at theory. It is a hypothesis. People who do not understand the nature of science do not ususally understand the difference. A hypothesis cannot be a theory until it has been proven, and so long as there is more than one hypothesis, as there is for evolution, none are theories.

Perhaps it is you who does not understand the nature of science.

All science is tentative, and nothing is ever proved! No theory, not germ theory, not the theory of gravitation, not a one is proved! Your statement denigrating the theory of evolution, and reducing it to an hypothesis because it hasn't been "proved" is simply incorrect and brings into serious question your knowledge of science and its methods.

The theory of evolution is a theory, and has been for a long time. Calling it an hypothesis does not make it one.

See the definitions on my FR home page.

64 posted on 04/28/2008 10:59:59 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman

Even given your position on evolution, saying what you just posted in a classroom would likely get you fired, or get the ACLU sicced on you.

“Evolution is a fact.” Stating anything to the contrary, even as you have, or questioning that statement in a classroom is verboten.


65 posted on 04/28/2008 11:04:05 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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