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To: LibertarianSchmoe
re: Look what happens when an evolutionary notion is debunked after a better notion comes along.... Look at what? It hasn't happened yet...

Indeed? There are so many threads on FR I couldn't count them about "new" ideas in evolution. The latest and most interesting concerned a woman scientist (I noticed that, yes) who found tissue of a dinosaur--not a fossil, but some residual tissue--and calls into question either the assumed age of dinosaurs or the presumed decay-time of said dinosaur.

And the infantile sniggerings about a discovered "new" beaver really did the maturity of the FRevos proud!

Evo ideas are regularly abandoned. But they just fade into the cosmos with little dismay, along with other fairy tales gone stale. A bad pharmeceudical is accountable in a scientific way. It gets tested, it seems to cure, but fails.

Evolution can't fail, therefore it is not science.

357 posted on 04/19/2006 2:24:08 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle
EvolutionHeliocentrism can't fail, therefore it is not science.
360 posted on 04/19/2006 2:29:44 PM PDT by js1138 (~()):~)>)
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To: Mamzelle
Evolution can't fail, therefore it is not science.

Evolution can fail (be falsified), but what has been happening is that recent discoveries have fine-tuned the theory. Little things, like 150 years of research, genetics and DNA, real geology, all of the African fossils. All the rest. And there has been only fine-tuning, not a falsification of the theory of evolution.

Now, lets look at creationism, and its duplicitous offspring, ID. They can't even be tested and falsified--only believed.

456 posted on 04/19/2006 8:08:08 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Interim tagline: The UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT!)
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