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To: Coyoteman
This is a serious question, and I would like to understand your reasoning.

Simple: The other side says...

"This is how it works!"

and it gets engraved in stone.


And then later, in smal print says, "Uh, we changed how it works."

306 posted on 03/16/2007 5:15:51 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie
Our original exchange:

EVOLUTION is a demonstrably changable theory: proposed, written, re-written, organized by committee, translated, re-translated, re-organized, re-written, and re-organized again by the minds of men.

So?

That is the way science is done. Theories are modified to become increasingly accurate.

In some cases, theories can't be modified to account for new data, and are replaced by new, and more accurate, theories.

Why do you expect that a theory has to be unchangeable, and why do you criticize science when it modifies theories to be more accurate?

This is a serious question, and I would like to understand your reasoning.

Now you answer:

Simple: The other side says...

"This is how it works!"

and it gets engraved in stone.

And then later, in smal print says, "Uh, we changed how it works."


I think you are vastly underestimating how science works.

I have seen time and time again that you and others here disparage scientists for couching their research in cautious terms. "It seems," "appears," "may be interpreted as" and many other similar terms that are common in science, although perhaps not so common in science written for the layman by science writers.

Now you are criticizing science for, as you put it, saying "This is how it works! ... and it gets engraved in stone."

You can't have it both ways.

I think you just don't like the results of some scientific investigations, and that you are taking cheap shots.

If this is not the case, please answer the question I asked above: Why do you expect that a theory has to be unchangeable, and why do you criticize science when it modifies theories to be more accurate?

360 posted on 03/16/2007 9:32:34 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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