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Author Topic:   Applying Science to Past Events
Robert Byers
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Message 343 of 354 (147556)
10-05-2004 3:14 PM
Reply to: Message 336 by Unknown
09-28-2004 1:00 AM


Your right here somewhat. Creationists have an alternative ideas that intervene in the assumptions made from present evidence.
So we can then challenge you folk to demonstrate your evidence for these unobserved past events.
And all you say is WELL we assume the past is the present.
Fine. we say but don't say you brought the past under the careful examination of a scientific method.
You say WELL we did.
So here we are.
All this gymnastics to show creationists that these assumptions are well founded fails when we ask you to demonstrate it.
Rob

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Robert Byers
Member (Idle past 4394 days)
Posts: 640
From: Toronto,canada
Joined: 02-06-2004


Message 344 of 354 (147557)
10-05-2004 3:20 PM
Reply to: Message 338 by Unknown
09-28-2004 1:00 AM


You said something important here Nosyned.
You said the person in the field can only claim hypothesis or speculation if the theory fails because of the method failing.
Well Percy has tried to tell me otherwise. That theory and hypothesis are only of degree of difference. That hypothesis is the same as theory.
This is an important point and shows the importance of definition of words and concepts.
When I refer to origins I only mean any subject that deals with explaining the past. I don't mean the origin of life itself.
Rob

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