Re: Definition Challenge

On 2006-06-26, topmind <topmind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As science is an inductive process, that means that assertions are always
considered provisional and judged according to their fit to the evidence.
"Reasonably consistent" is defined by fit to the evidence. If you are
incapable of understanding the fundamentals of scientific induction, then
that would explain why you continue to conflate your speculations with
science.

The problem is you, not me. I work well with precision.

That shattering sound you hear is all of talk.origins famous irony
meters simultaneously converting themselves to doorstops.

You have yet to provide any precise empirical observations, hypotheses,
predictions, or tests in several months on this newsgroup.

I only have to be as clear as SETI to make my point. SETI is cowboy
speculation.

For someone who is supposedly trying to make a point about intelligent
design, you sure do dedicate a lot of inches of print to talking about
SETI.

But anyway, in the words of Richard Feynman...

"In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the
war they saw airplanes with lots of good materials, and they
want the same thing to happen now. So they've arranged to
make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the
runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two
wooden pieces on his head to headphones and bars of bamboo
sticking out like antennas--he's the controller--and they wait
for the airplanes to land. They're doing everything right. The
form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But
it doesn't work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo
cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and
forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing something
essential, because the planes don't land."


You practice cargo cult science. You try to go through the motions that
you think other scientists do, but it doesn't work, because something
essential is missing. The planes just keep passing overhead...

Mark

-T-

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