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To: Hayride

Just because you are apparently unable to understand or haven’t looked at or for the evidence doesn’t make it nonexistent or missing or fraudulent.

Look at the university library at the volumes of the publication “Evolution” alone - or of the many journals dealing almost exclusively with evolution - if pages were water one would most certainly drown (if unable to swim).

The nature of science is extrapolation. The weights dropped by Galileo off the tower of Pisa were not said to be relevant only to those weights at that location - but extrapolated into a system whereby one could accurately predict the rate at which ANY object would fall at ANY location.

Just because we didn’t see our own Sun form through gravity and nuclear fusion doesn’t mean that the theory of stellar formation is in any way lacking and not applicable to our own Sun.


27 posted on 08/16/2012 11:34:34 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: allmendream; Hayride
Just because you are apparently unable to understand

I think he just Alinsky'd you.

49 posted on 08/16/2012 5:30:54 PM PDT by SwankyC
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To: allmendream
The nature of science is extrapolation. The weights dropped by Galileo off the tower of Pisa were not said to be relevant only to those weights at that location - but extrapolated into a system whereby one could accurately predict the rate at which ANY object would fall at ANY location

The extrapolation to "ANY location" includes the moon and Mars right?

50 posted on 08/16/2012 5:34:15 PM PDT by SwankyC
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To: allmendream
Actually I can do better than my last question.

haven’t looked at or for the evidence doesn’t make it nonexistent or missing or fraudulent. Look at the university library at the volumes of the publication “Evolution” alone ... The nature of science is extrapolation."

Your implication is that the evidence is the existence of the books on evolution. So may I extrapolate the existence of 100s of thousands of books in the library make them evidence of their fact too?

51 posted on 08/16/2012 5:55:26 PM PDT by SwankyC
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To: allmendream

Yes, I’m too dumb to understand. Can you please point me to a credible paper on observed speciation? While you’re at it guide me to a source that has proof of a transitional fossil (not one that shows minor variation amoungst a species, one that is caught in the transition between species). Surely millions exist but pick the best one. What is your favorite theory about how life sprung from non-life? Why do you think the theory of punctuated equilibrium came about when there’s mountains of “evidence” for evolution.

Thanks in advance for helping the less fortunate.

p.s. The Galileo example concerns knowledge gained through observation and/or experimentation so it qualifies as science. An example of the extrapolation I was talking about was taking a single tooth (that turned out to be from an extinct pig) and turning it into an ape-man complete with family and tools. Poor Nebraska man, the cartoon looked so convincing. Anyway, that’s not science, that’s science fiction.


70 posted on 08/28/2012 1:24:31 PM PDT by Hayride
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