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Article #31763Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
From: Daniel Packman
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:26
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:26
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In article <WP6Ad.5483524$yk.832436@news.easynews.com>, Sam Stone <sirian@mental.org> wrote: >Daniel Packman wrote: ....... >> Yes. Measurements get better. Theories get refined. >And science gets altered. Not fundamentally altered. The classical theories are still as valid as ever and accurately describe many phenomena to the limits of even current observation. >Funny how the previously unthinkable and unprovable slides into focus. 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. >Sort of like those prayer experiments... This can at least potentially be posed as a scientifically testable theory. So far, the results seem negative as the previous references show. >Another one of those "unmeasurable" moral constructs... If it remains unmeasurable, it remains outside of science. -- Daniel Packman NCAR/ACD pack@ucar.edu
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