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To: VadeRetro
Argument from numbers doesn't work either. Scientists have believed many things about origins even since the time of Darwin. They will believe totally different things in the years to come. Opinions change and scientists tend to adjust dates and the like to what's in vogue at the moment.
1,162 posted on 08/18/2003 8:22:41 PM PDT by DittoJed2
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To: DittoJed2
Argument from numbers doesn't work either. Scientists have believed many things about origins even since the time of Darwin. They will believe totally different things in the years to come. Opinions change and scientists tend to adjust dates and the like to what's in vogue at the moment.

Not what's in vogue. Theories are revised as new evidence comes to light.

1,165 posted on 08/18/2003 8:28:52 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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Argument from numbers doesn't work either.

Then lonely little Behe doesn't help you with his credentials or his tiny little handful of ID brothers.

What you're missing about the progress of science is that it is progress. Because your belief system was discredited 140 years ago, you comfort yourself that science simply veers here and there and can be expected to come back to you. But science doesn't simply thrash about. It converges upon an increasingly accurate description of reality.

We used to think fire was a substance called phlogiston that rushes out when a substance burns. Now we think fire is oxidation, a chemical reaction.

Things change in science, but don't bet on phlogiston theory ever coming back. Some things are really wrong.

1,167 posted on 08/18/2003 8:30:08 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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