Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 18:20:14 -0500 From: Ken Wills <kenwills@tds.net> To: "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net>, dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <20020915232013.GA1669@zaptillion.net> In-Reply-To: <20020907110109.T44831-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> References: <3D7A3376.A858DD79@mindspring.com> <20020907110109.T44831-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan>
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+++ Neal E. Westfall [07/09/02 13:10 -0700]: > > > On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > "Neal E. Westfall" wrote: > > > > The scientific method never verifies, it only falsifies, so asking > > > > that something be empirically verified, whether it be the old theory > > > > of evolution, the current theory of puctuated equilibria, or that > > > > gravity is related to the curvature of space, is asking for the > > > > impossible. Science can only demonstrate the invalidity of ideas, > > > > not their validity. > > > > > > Okay, then lets stop pretending that creation is "unscientific" while > > > evolution is "scientific". Neither one of them can be falsified, so > > > either *both* of them are scientific, or neither of them are. You > > > can't have your cake and eat it too. If you claim an explanation > > > must also be "naturalistic", I charge you with providing a > > > justification for such arbitrariness. > > > > I guess we can keep on calling the currently accepted scientific > > theory "evolution", even though that's not the correct name for it. > > > > With that in mind, the methods you use judge one theory vs. another > > are: > > > > 1) Are the theories predictive? > > Evolution is not, as it relies on chance. Chance, by definition, > is unpredictable. Flip a coin. I predict it will be heads or tails. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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