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To: Revolting cat!
100 years from now, the Bible will be here still, how many scientific theories that are really current dogmas will last?

For your argument to be of any use, scientific theories would have to be getting less accurate. If there are any changes (and it is likely there will be), then those theories will become more accurate. How does this help creationists or Bible belief or anything related? Scientific theories can improve with additional evidence and testing, dogma can't improve (remember, dogma is a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without evidence, and that is quite the opposite of a scientific theory).


Just last week there was a 400,000 year correction to the dateline of emergence of man to establish a new dogma (I know nothing more, as I don’t pay attention to this nonsense.)

You should pay more attention if you want to have an informed opinion on the issue. One group of researchers suggested a new interpretation of the archaeological record. Many others do not accept that new interpretation. Now the debate will begin, and we will see where it leads. I personally doubt it will result in very much change in current theory. But in either case you don't have a clue because you have not studied the issue, and you don't know the scientific evidence on either side of the issue. All you can do is parrot some anti-science dogma you read on some website.

But the interesting thing here is that your comment demonstrates that scientific theories are not "dogma," because if they were dogma they would not be subject to change, and those proposing change would be condemned as heretics.


Wasn’t it Andy Warhol who said that in the future every scientific theory will be famous for 15 minutes?!

No. Nice try, but just no!

210 posted on 06/27/2007 7:09:44 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman
Good response, thank you. I still remain on the side of the sceptics, which is not to say Creationists, who nevertheless impress me with their impertinent questions, even if I'm sceptical of their answers as well.

But I do stand by my point about scientific dogmas, or should I say dogmas du jour,as these theories about creation and the age of the universe become, or as they are transmitted and presented to the rest of us mortals.And they do change, as the new theories come up. 400,000 one way or another, pretty soon you get a millenium. And such numbers do appear on exam tests taken by our children, only to be changed on tests taken by their younger siblings. That's not dogma? Maybe dogma is not the right term, you name it.

211 posted on 06/27/2007 7:29:36 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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