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Old 02-01-2009, 10:56 AM   #48
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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan View Post
Thor, please don't use scientific theories and fact in the same sentence. Science does not prove things, but is a method of DISPROVING. Yes, scientific theories can become solid enough to be accepted as fact, but that doesn't change that they are fallable, or at least could be.
True, though I'll bring up the quote that I already posted:

“In science ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent’"

Evolution is easily falsified. Scientists have been trying for 150 years.

People trust gravity to always work. I'm not going to jump off a building on the idea that the theory of gravity is fallible. Same thing with evolution, yes it's a theory, but at this stage to not accept it without contrary evidence is silly.
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