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Duplicate, or your observations are no more scientific than Margaret Mead’s or Noam Chomsky’s.
Postulates, hypotheses and theories should not be taught as given fact. Just because “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” sounds neat doesn’t mean it is necessarily true.
I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’.


10 posted on 06/20/2007 4:28:45 AM PDT by steve8714 ("A man needs a maid", my ass.)
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To: steve8714
Duplicate, or your observations are no more scientific than Margaret Mead’s or Noam Chomsky’s. Postulates, hypotheses and theories should not be taught as given fact. Just because “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” sounds neat doesn’t mean it is necessarily true. I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’

I'll make a bold prediction: more bacteria will become resistant to antibiotics and the flu next year will have mutated from the flu this year making flu shots given this year useless. But that would show that organisms mutate their genes so that their offspring will survive and multiply.

18 posted on 06/20/2007 9:25:39 PM PDT by burzum (None shall see me, though my battlecry may give me away -Minsc)
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Postulates, hypotheses and theories should not be taught as given fact.

You are correct, they shouldn't. But only theories with testable scientific hypotheses should be taught.

"God did it" is not one of them.

21 posted on 06/21/2007 4:48:10 PM PDT by GunRunner (Come on Fred, how long are you going to wait?)
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