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To: Alter Kaker
"Why is it that when creationists are trying to attack or insult science, they accuse it of being like a religion??

Why is it that when creationists point out the philosophical nature of unobservable 'scientific' theories, the naturalists immediately fall into the fallacy of reverse ad hominem?

10 posted on 04/01/2009 7:03:06 AM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan
Why is it that when creationists point out the philosophical nature of unobservable 'scientific' theories, the naturalists immediately fall into the fallacy of reverse ad hominem?

Well stated.


12 posted on 04/01/2009 7:11:04 AM PDT by WVKayaker (Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: GourmetDan

There are a small number of as yet unobservable scientific theories. String theory is an obvious example. Evolution isn’t one of them.


18 posted on 04/01/2009 7:29:21 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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