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To: Ford4000
"...we have scientists constantly saying that evolution is not a theory but a proven fact."

Evolution is both a theory and a fact. It happens in nature, it is observable, it is testible and predictions can be made based on it. That's a fact. Organisms evolve It's also the theory that describes the fact as it appears in nature.

You weren't trying to pass on the tired creationist lie that "theory" means "guess," were you?

155 posted on 09/29/2005 9:00:09 AM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: highball
predictions can be made based on it

When I asked about these "predictions" and what was the next evolutionary development we are likely to witness, I was directed to a link that described "retrodictions" and other linquistic contrivances that explain the "predictions" are not predictions at all.

Be real - how much stock would you put in the "predictive" powers of someone who can only "predict" the past?

169 posted on 09/29/2005 9:28:39 AM PDT by KMJames
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