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To: GodGunsGuts
Fortunately, scientific reality is not the product of polls conducted within the nonscientific community.
310 posted on 08/18/2008 10:00:03 PM PDT by stormer
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To: stormer

==Fortunately, scientific reality is not the product of polls conducted within the nonscientific community.

I quite agree. But we shouldn’t allow the equal and opposite error of allowing a pseudo-scientific clique of religious Darwinists to determine what scientific reality is either.


317 posted on 08/18/2008 10:12:06 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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Right. Dismiss the results because they don’t support your point of view. Disingenuous.

There is no scientific *reality*. Science is built on shifting sands, constantly changing as new data comes in. It’s not reliable. It’s not about truth. It’s about the best current explanation for the data which might not be the best tomorrow, or next week, or next year.


334 posted on 08/19/2008 6:14:29 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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