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To: Rudder
Good point, and a point which all scientists assume. That's why replication of results is so important...

I hear you on this. The point is that "experiments" as we design them are limited. As a physician, I know that many "clinically proven" therapies are worthless. Everyone who actually cares for people knows that this is true. The scientific method is the best we have, and it is a tool that we are obliged to use. No reproducible experiments can prove that life evolved in the absence of a Creator. That it may have, is highly counter intuitive and mathematically unlikely. Nevertheless, it is certainly possible.

51 posted on 02/22/2007 8:08:03 PM PST by outofstyle
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To: outofstyle
The scientific method is the best we have, and it is a tool that we are obliged to use.

As a physician and former research scientist, I recall the wisdom of Dean Turner (JHH) when he wrote that a good physician sits on a three-legged stool: Education, Experience and Intellect.

When I stared clinical practice rather late in life after I had retread from scientist to clinician at JHH, I was full of education. After 20 years of clinical practice, I value experience more.

59 posted on 02/22/2007 8:25:43 PM PST by Rudder
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