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To: GodGunsGuts

no it can not. There is no such thing as a historical science. There is history describing science. Archeology can never be used to understand Alexandar the Great in a historical sense, and the same argument for the other sciences you have listed. Paleontology can never reconstruct the physical past as dinosaurs existed millions of years ago. You are purposefully defining history with science. If your argument was correct, paleontology would be able to reconstruct a physical dinosaur with the same conditions that it existed millions of years ago. History describes the past. Science explains it. You continue post after post to equate the two words.


52 posted on 08/27/2009 10:35:05 PM PDT by socialismislost
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To: socialismislost

Then evolutionary biology is not science. Paleontology is not science. Cosmology is not science. Etc, etc, etc.

Needless to say, there are a ton of historical scientists who would vehemently disagree with you:

http://spot.colorado.edu/~cleland/articles/Cleland.Geology.pdf


53 posted on 08/27/2009 10:40:20 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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