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Article #31770Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
From: Sam Stone
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:14
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:14
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Daniel Packman wrote: > 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. Really? In medicine thalidomide is not quite the panacea it once was... > The classical theories are still > as valid as ever and accurately describe many phenomena to the > limits of even current observation. Many yes, all no. Even Hawking is far from immune to revision. >>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. Meaning you find super string theory speculative? That Wolfram's nautilus of growth isn't as elegant as mathematica? >>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. Not from the studies I've seen. And the "Myth Busters" charade aside, there is significant professional concordance on prayer's efficacy. >>Another one of those "unmeasurable" moral constructs... > > > If it remains unmeasurable, it remains outside of science. Funny the eco-weenies haven't seen things that way.
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