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To: Coyoteman
Jim, your site is becoming a haven for an increasingly vociferous band of anti-science kooks.

You're one of them. Insisting that nothing in science is true, is the quintessence of anti-science kookery.

842 posted on 01/16/2009 5:22:34 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
You're one of them. Insisting that nothing in science is true, is the quintessence of anti-science kookery.

You're lying about what I post, and playing silly word games. Do you think that advances your cause any?

This is the definition that I post, showing your deliberate misrepresentation.

Truth: This is a word best avoided entirely in physics [and science] except when placed in quotes, or with careful qualification. Its colloquial use has so many shades of meaning from ‘it seems to be correct’ to the absolute truths claimed by religion, that it’s use causes nothing but misunderstanding. Someone once said "Science seeks proximate (approximate) truths." Others speak of provisional or tentative truths. Certainly science claims no final or absolute truths. Source

For the lurkers, the source is a CalTech physics website so this definition is not exactly fringe material.
851 posted on 01/16/2009 8:04:14 AM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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