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To: Alter Kaker
Without replicability, it's hypothesis.

Without missing links, it's dubious.

With Piltdown Man, it was fraud.

The fossil record has yet to be proven. While some scientific techniques are used among the many types of specimen analysis and data extrapolation techniques used by researchers--(many of them honest and nonfraudulent)--stating hypothesis-testing-allegedly-in-progress as scientific facts that happen to verify one's personal theology or atheism is nonetheless serving as priest-advocate, not scientist.
36 posted on 04/12/2007 3:33:02 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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37 posted on 04/12/2007 3:33:33 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
Without replicability, it's hypothesis.

Is the existence of George Washington a hypothesis? Can you replicate him?

Without missing links, it's dubious.

Thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of missing links exist. Of course every time one is found, two more gaps appear in the fossil record...

With Piltdown Man, it was fraud.

So you're disproving all independent dating methods, because... one guy perpetrated one hoax 80 years ago? I'm confused.

The fossil record has yet to be proven.

What does that mean, that fossils don't exist?

While some scientific techniques are used among the many types of specimen analysis and data extrapolation techniques used by researchers--(many of them honest and nonfraudulent)--stating hypothesis-testing-allegedly-in-progress as scientific facts that happen to verify one's personal theology or atheism is nonetheless serving as priest-advocate, not scientist.

Sir, I don't understand that sentence. Please do us the favor of writing it in English.

40 posted on 04/12/2007 3:40:31 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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