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To: a fool in paradise

While current science indicates the Big Bang is true, it is still called a theory. Ditto evolution.


17 posted on 02/15/2014 9:34:53 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Nuc 1.1

Yup, the difference between science, theory, and faith needs to be understood before one can ever have an honest conversation about any of them.

We can really get nit picky and state that the earth doesn’t actually orbit the sun. In reality everything in the solar system (including the sun) orbits the gravity center of the solar system.


22 posted on 02/15/2014 9:43:29 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Nuc 1.1

I downloaded one of the pdf reports from the researcher site. First page went into Climate Change (it was the public perceptions document).

The “war on science” meme continues.

Stalinists lie. Always.


23 posted on 02/15/2014 9:48:44 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: Nuc 1.1
While current science indicates the Big Bang is true, it is still called a theory. Ditto evolution.

That is because scientists do not mean the same thing when they say "theory" as non-scientists mean when they use the word. A theory, in science, is the foundation that ties together all of the known evidence and data about a specific subject into a coherent framework. It is a tool that enables scientists to propose new hypotheses which can be tested experimentally. Thus, the theories of evolution, gravity, electromagnetism, genetic heritability, etc., will always remain theories regardless of how much supporting data there is.

32 posted on 02/15/2014 6:42:55 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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