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To: Dominic Harr
Gravity meets the Scientific Method:

1. OBSERVATION

2. EXPERIMENTATION

3. REPRODUCTION

4. FALSIFICATION

You look at the data and assume that your theory is correct. Though you admit that it cannot be proven, that is faith - Believing something that cannot be seen or proven.

You are the one not hearing, you are blinded by your faith. You chose to ignore the very data and theories that may prove you correct because you fear that it may prove you wrong.

faith Pronunciation Key (fth) n.

1. Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.

2. Belief that does not rest on proof.

294 posted on 06/17/2002 1:19:14 PM PDT by CyberCowboy777
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To: CyberCowboy777
You look at the data and assume that your theory is correct.

No, and this is the most interesting part of your misunderstanding. The core of your errors, if I'm not mistaken.

I look at the data and assume that I do *not* understand the whole truth. So I look around for possible explanations that might fit with the data.

I know the explanations -- theories -- are not complete. I have no faith in the theories being 100% true at all. I completely understand that they aren't the 'word of god'. I see the current theories simply as a "best guess".

That's where you blow it completely with your misunderstanding of what 'science' is. It's not 'faith'. So your thinking of it as faith means you won't understand it at all. That's the way it works.

But I also know that the evidence I see does not support a 'new earth' theory at all.

295 posted on 06/17/2002 1:28:10 PM PDT by Dominic Harr
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