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Author Topic:   What is a theory in biology?
New Cat's Eye
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Message 9 of 22 (204757)
05-03-2005 7:28 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by ProfessorR
05-03-2005 5:46 PM


Mind if I butt in.
Would you care to comment on the statement that "Darwinism" (or the modern theory of evolution) is not a scientific theory? What, in your opinion, makes people issue such a statement?
I asked a question about what we could evolve into, or where evolution was taking us, (which I later realised was asking the theory to make a prediction {a fundamental part of scientific theories}), I got this answer:
Jar writes:
You seem to think that evolution has some directionality? It doesn't. It's simply a history of what did happen.
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If this were true, then I wouldn't consider the TOE a theory nor science. Not that I believe this, but this is the sort of thing that makes people issue such a statement.

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