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To: A2J
High school biology textbooks would include a disclaimer that evolution is only a theory ...

If they do that, they should have a "disclaimer" for the Theory of Covalent Bonds, the Theory of General Relativity, and the Theory of Stellar Evolution.

In fact, everything in science should be labeled a theory, since it is always open to review and alteration because of new evidence.
21 posted on 12/11/2002 9:46:30 AM PST by BikerNYC
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To: BikerNYC
You're forgetting, that when it comes to the Theories regarding relativity or physical laws then the creationists resort to the traditional scientific definition of a theory. It is only with the Theory of Evolution that the word 'theory' becomes synonymous with 'blind guess'.
191 posted on 12/12/2002 11:56:25 AM PST by Dimensio
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To: BikerNYC
If they do that, they should have a "disclaimer" for the Theory of Covalent Bonds, the Theory of General Relativity, and the Theory of Stellar Evolution.

In fact that would be all right with me. But there's no real need seeing as how there are very few overzealous idiotic people who go around saying stuff like "General Relativity is a FACT", as is commonly said about "evolution".

In fact, everything in science should be labeled a theory, since it is always open to review and alteration because of new evidence.

Exactly. But evolution proponents often seem to forget this. Best,

329 posted on 12/14/2002 10:52:21 AM PST by Dr. Frank fan
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To: BikerNYC
If they do that, they should have a "disclaimer" for the Theory of Covalent Bonds, the Theory of General Relativity, and the Theory of Stellar Evolution

In fact, everything in science should be labeled a theory, since it is always open to review and alteration because of new evidence.

This is one of the arguments that is always being used by evolutionists. While technically true, most of these have been proven through controlled repeatable experiments, which is the heart of the scientific method, and therefore they have a degree of certainty that cannot be claimed for evolution. The ones which do not have experimental proofs often are stated as being just theories, and no one has a problem with that. So the situation is kind of the opposite of what you're saying, i.e. evolution has to have a special status and be stated as a proven fact when it's not.

2,208 posted on 01/02/2003 10:35:51 AM PST by lasereye
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