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here, where the message subtitle was "Typical yes/no black/white fundamentalist-creationist reasoning".
How is it a great thing about science that they prove themselves wrong in every generation?
It is not that scientific theories are discarded wholesale. They are modified to be improved versions. Much/most of the previous content remains being considered valid.
It is not that scientists show ("prove") themselves to be completely wrong. It's that scientists show themselves to be less than completely right. There is alway room for improvement in a theory.
Many mainstream Christians also have found that there is room for improvement in their theology. It is the fundamentialists that are stuck in the "it's all right or it's all wrong" line of reasoning.
Moose
Submitted to "Is It Science?" forum.
{Promoted version edited to change "fundementalist" to "fundamentalist". Never can get that right, and when I checked it in "Word", the response time let me down. - Moose}
This message has been edited by minnemooseus, 12-07-2005 02:36 PM
This message has been edited by minnemooseus, 12-07-2005 02:45 PM
Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U
Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment.
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