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To: WRhine
So are you saying that a "Theory" is one man's opinion until another man comes along and proves him wrong?
33 posted on 10/22/2001 10:54:23 PM PDT by Truth Speaker
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To: Truth Speaker
So are you saying that a "Theory" is one man's opinion until another man comes along and proves him wrong?

No, it is a consensus of opinion until a subsequent discovery creates a new consensus. This is how science works. The theory of relativity is still called a theory even though it has been proven true time and again in scientific experiments. Most things in science are theories, which is to say that we can see how something works and to a great extent why it works but there are still WHYS.

41 posted on 10/22/2001 11:23:08 PM PDT by WRhine
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