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Author Topic:   The Nature of Scientific Inquiry; Is Evolution Science?
crashfrog
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Message 34 of 86 (196064)
04-01-2005 3:25 PM
Reply to: Message 32 by Faith
04-01-2005 3:00 PM


Try to follow the argument here. Are you going to send a man up for murder on nothing but your inferences from the physical evidence?
Yes. Yes we are, and can, and have.
So we might as well open the jails, right? If we can't "know anything about the past", then we certainly can't know that anyone is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, right?
Unless, maybe, your doubts about our ability to reconstruct the past simply aren't reasonable?

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crashfrog
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Message 52 of 86 (198046)
04-10-2005 11:48 AM
Reply to: Message 49 by Faith
04-10-2005 5:33 AM


Actually, it is hard for me to get this formulated properly, but it's not that there aren't things we know, it's that a theory about what happened can't be verified for sure because there is simply no way to test what happened in the past.
So, what you're saying is that, our conclusions about what happened in the past might have to be... tentative?
All that is speculation, theory, the stuff that can't be proved or falsified.
Well, it can't be proved, but it can certainly be falsified. If the fossils weren't arranged the way they are, that would certainly falsify the historical evolutionary model.

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