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To: BroJoeK

No, that is the oldest trick in the book. You do not have proof so you dismiss it with everything is changing when it is not. Same trick they use for Global Warming, we don’t have proof so everything is proof.

You cannot prove it so enjoy your dying theory. Done with you.


107 posted on 12/11/2018 4:54:16 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: bray
bray: "No, that is the oldest trick in the book."

Any "tricking" here is yours.

bray: "You do not have proof so you dismiss it with everything is changing when it is not."

Nothing in science is formally "proved", meaning that term "proved" isn't normally used.
So you might even claim that all of science is "fake" since none of it is "proved".

The term science uses is "confirmed" and that applies to observations -- a confirmed observation is called a "fact".
And it applies to explanations, where a confirmed hypothesis is called a "theory".
Confirmations can be weak or strong and when strong confirmations are multiplied innumerable times (as with evolution theory) then theories can be accepted almost as if observed fact.

One example of a hypothesis being confirmed into theory and then observed as fact is the Earth's globe shape.
First hypothesized by ancient Greeks the globe shape was confirmed as theory by Age of Exploration circumnavigations and then observed as fact by orbiting satellites.

bray: "Same trick they use for Global Warming, we don’t have proof so everything is proof."

Anthropogenic Global Warming -- meaning man-caused -- is an unconfirmed hypothesis, regardless of what politicians or politically motivated scientists tell us.
What's been claimed to be "confirmations" are at best weak and not convincing in terms of man-made cause & effect.

bray: "You cannot prove it so enjoy your dying theory. Done with you."

Nothing in science, by definition, is ever "proved" but every critical element of evolution theory has been observed and that's as close to "proof" as we'll ever get.

108 posted on 12/11/2018 6:44:47 AM PST by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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