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To: The Grammarian
You: Explain to me how one can reproduce evolution, empirically, such that it is fact, again?

Me:
We can't kill Nicole Simpson all over again. But we can look at the clues and figure out that OJ did it. That's how it is with any historical science. Life on Earth developed over time, and all species are related. Those are facts.

You:
Prove it. Empirically.

You've just made my point. Creationists are a pack of OJ jurors.

77 posted on 12/11/2002 1:50:45 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
Main Entry: log·ic

Pronunciation: 'lä-jik
Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English logik, from Middle French logique, from Latin logica, from Greek logikE, from feminine of logikos of reason, from logos reason -- more at LEGEND

Date: 12th century

1 a

(1) : a science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration : the science of the formal principles of reasoning

(2) : a branch or variety of logic

(3) : a branch of semiotic; especially : SYNTACTICS

(4) : the formal principles of a branch of knowledge

b (1) : a particular mode of reasoning viewed as valid or faulty

(2) : RELEVANCE, PROPRIETY

c : interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable

d : the arrangement of circuit elements (as in a computer) needed for computation; also : the circuits themselves

2 : something that forces a decision apart from or in opposition to reason < the logic of war >

- lo·gi·cian /lO-'ji-sh&n/ noun

78 posted on 12/11/2002 1:54:53 PM PST by f.Christian
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To: PatrickHenry
Criminal court verdicts and empirical science are not even remotely comparable. Try again.
160 posted on 12/12/2002 12:05:50 AM PST by The Grammarian
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