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Author Topic:   Creation Science and the Methodology of Scientific Inquiry
Percy
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Message 8 of 8 (51165)
08-19-2003 4:23 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by TrueCreation
08-18-2003 11:45 PM


TC writes:
That science merely involves observation, measurement, and experimentation undermines the ability for scientific inquiry to reconstruct a model of history. Just because there has been no documentation of a historical event does not mean that we cannot hypothesize that an event has taken place and perform a detailed analysis to potentially falsify its occurrence.
This is sufficiently ambiguous that it provides a lot of wiggle room, but it appears to represent a special pleading that you can hypothesize an event for which you have no evidence, and hence is not science.
The rest seems fine.
--Percy

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