Re: Evolution is not a fact

On Apr 25, 12:50 am, "Apocalypse" <Apocaly...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is at *best* a theory.

In science, an explanation of observations that meets the criteria of
being a "theory" is one that must be testable, make testable
predictions or expectations, *and* consistently be in agreement with
the observations that those tests entail. A "theory" is a grander
explanation than merely an explanation consistent with a single
hypothesis testing.

Merely by proposing the above sentence, which uses a non-scientific
definition of "theory" that has been known to be bogus for decades,
and by your failure to interact beyond this post by actually
intelligently (or even dim-wittedly, which is probably the best you
can do) responding to the critiques that followed, I hypothesize that
you are nothing but an agent provocateur, a hit-and-run cretinist.
Such are even lower forms of cretinist than the persistently deluded
that at least try to argue their position. Of course, the predicted
test of this hypothesis (that you will continue to fail to respond to
others) will never be certain and could easily be falsified.

The truth is that there is no conclusive
scientific evidence to support any claim that we know enough about where we
came from to call any idea currently on the table....a fact.

Well, since theory generation requires both the gathering of empirical
rather than revealed evidence, a chain of logical reasoning based on
non-supernatural assumptions and knowledge of the many, many, examples
of hypothesis testing, nearly all of which have to be consistent with
the final theory for that theory to be generally accepted, I can
certainly see why you would not consider anything that you disagree
with a 'fact', even if it were shoved up yer...

This is statement meets the criteria to be considered a scientific fact.
Anyone that contradicts this is a liar.

Isn't it grand to be so open to evidence that you know, without even
having a shred of empirical support for your proposition, that honest
scientists who have done honest science for generations are wrong and
part of a grand atheist conspiracy because they have collectively come
to conclusions you disagree with! Such humility! You must be a real
polymath genius to realize where all these hard-working scientists
over many generations, scientists of many faiths and no faith,
scientists of many countries, have gone so badly wrong. Perhaps it is
that *ALL* science is an atheistic conspiracy and we should go back to
the pre-scientific times when people *knew* what mattered, faith and
ignorance (and short, nasty, and brutish lives).

(A)

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