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To: Hank Kerchief; betty boop; Alamo-Girl
Apparently Luke did not have the advantage of all your wisdom on the subject because he though something as important as the Messiahship of Christ could be PROVED. Too bad you weren’t around to show him that nothing can be proved.

Science is based on falsification Hank, not proof. If we can't falsify it we generally accept it, that is why they are called theories, not proofs.

810 posted on 06/16/2009 8:55:28 PM PDT by LeGrande (I once heard a smart man say that you canÂ’t reason someone out of something that they didnÂ’t reaso)
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To: LeGrande
Math, on the other hand...
811 posted on 06/16/2009 8:58:55 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: LeGrande; Alamo-Girl; Hank Kerchief; spirited irish; metmom; hosepipe; xzins
Science is based on falsification Hank, not proof. If we can't falsify it we generally accept it, that is why they are called theories, not proofs.

Thank you so very much for reminding of this, LeGrande!

And yet it certainly seems it's not always true that "if we can't falsify it we generally accept it." Jeepers, one can't falsify God or soul, but some people reject them anyway. (It really is irrational when you think about it.)

819 posted on 06/17/2009 10:58:09 AM PDT by betty boop (Tyranny is always whimsical. — Mark Steyn)
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