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To: GodGunsGuts
“Frankly, there’s a lot of museum politics involved in this, a lot of careers committed to a particular point of view even if new scientific evidence raises questions,” Ruben said. In some museum displays, he said, the birds-descended-from-dinosaurs evolutionary theory has been portrayed as a largely accepted fact

Reminds me of the “fact of evolution.” People do acquire an unwarranted commitment, and it’s hard to shake them loose. The commitment to Marxism over the years, up to the present, in Europe and America is staggering, when you consider it’s inadequate foundation. Evolutionary theory reminds me more of Freudian psychology, able to explain just about everything, but predicting very little. When an evolutionary prediction is found wrong, the prediction is revised with a superior “that’s science” statement. However, being able to “explain” anything, while predicting little - with the few specific predictions often wrong - is a hallmark of metaphysics (Marxism, Freudian psychology, evolutionary theory), not science.
82 posted on 06/09/2009 7:23:58 PM PDT by ChessExpert (The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took control of Congress. What is it today?)
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To: ChessExpert

You hit the nail on the head.


94 posted on 06/09/2009 7:39:10 PM PDT by Third Person (0bama is a Little Lebowski Urban Achiever)
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To: ChessExpert

==When an evolutionary prediction is found wrong, the prediction is revised with a superior “that’s science” statement.

Quite right. It is never evolution being falsified, only certain outdated ideas about evolution.


102 posted on 06/09/2009 8:08:21 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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