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Article #31672Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
From: Sam Stone
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:58
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:58
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Daniel Packman wrote: > In article <eFmAd.7627093$6p.1199617@news.easynews.com>, > Sam Stone <sirian@mental.org> wrote: > >>Daniel Packman wrote: > > ...... > >>>Leave proof out of it. The current theories that go beyond classical >>>physics are no more Truth than the pure classical model. It is all a >>>model to fit observations. Nothing more. And nothing less. > > >>Meaning you find super string theory speculative? > > >>That Wolfram's nautilus of growth isn't as elegant as mathematica? > > > They are theories like all others and carry sway to the extent they > have predictive power and are in accord with measurement. Have you read his latest? Do you see any present measure/predictive concordance? http://www.wolframscience.com > ...... > >>>If it remains unmeasurable, it remains outside of science. > > >>Funny the eco-weenies haven't seen things that way. > > > Creating an imagined group, here "eco-weenies", "Imagined"??? Is there no Greenpeace? No Sierra Club? No anti-ANWR drilling? > and ascribing > negative qualities to them doesn't advance your point. > h My pejorative is their willingness to employ scientific "experts" of choice to "plausibly" advance their ludite agenda - no more, no less. As I have stated, and as you have passed off, they seek to combine the moral (theirs) with the analytical (yours) - and that is a marriage you refuse to comment on, which tells me more than I really expected you'd reveal, even under my ham-fisted lens of exploratory interrogation. Care to blunder into a few more sinkholes? Oddly, I find scientists to be less than precise in their discussions...
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