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Eric Lucas wrote:

> You are therefore indicting all of modern science.  Many things we
> "know" are merely inferences drawn from a self-consistent body of data.
> Of course, some day someone may find data that contradict the current
> model.  However, at any given time, it is reasonable to speak of the
> current model as "the truth".  To do otherwise and add caveats to all
> statements would be ridiculous and make conversation impossible.
> Consider the sentence "The sun will come up tomorrow morning."  This is
> not mathematically provable according to your standards.  However, what
> would you think of someone that says:  "All the data so far point to the
> fact that the sun rises every morning, and so by extension, we believe
> that the sun will rise tomorrow morning.  However, we have not proven
> this with a high enough degree of certainty to accept it as a fact that
> it will rise tomorrow morning."

Fine, but I perceive this as being more like a question of
whether skies will be sunny or cloudy - we're not always
right about that !


Joseph