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To: Agamemnon

You can’t falsify the truth.


55 posted on 03/21/2010 10:15:52 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
You can’t falsify the truth.

That completely misses the point. 'Truth' is meaningless unless it can be tested or falsified.

For example, how meaningful is the 'Truth' that Despator (Celtic God of Creation) and I are good friends and that he is going to burn up the world because he is pissed that we don't worship him anymore?

How is that 'Truth' any different from the God Allah telling his people to cut off hands for stealing, or the God Jehovah telling people to eat his flesh?

Scientific 'truth' is testable, it makes predictions that can be falsified. If the predictions fail, the 'truth' was wrong.

57 posted on 03/21/2010 11:18:34 AM PDT by LeGrande (The government wants to make a new Government program (Health Care) to fix Medicare and Medicaid.)
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