Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00197)

 One either ascribes to the scientific method or not. There is sizeable group of people who will never accept something as proof that counters their personal beliefs. That is true in evolution, economics and the submergence of continents. The question is, do you accept the scientific method and the judgement of your peers?

David B.


> Thursday, June 9, 2005, 9:39:29 PM, david-blankenship wrote:
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> > Plate Tectonics is still evolving. With all the problems that still
> > exist it is still the best explanation for many problems.
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> An explanation which contradicts evidence does not explain it and
> hence is not an explanation, although it might be a highly esteemed
> and well funded theory.
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> > Plate Tectonics is still the consensus.
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> Certainly it is. As well as Darwinian evolution, Big Bang, creation of
> life out of a primordial soup with thunder & lightning (or, as an
> alternative, sowing its seeds from space where it must have been
> mechanically created somehow anyway) and so on...
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> So what?
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> Vladimir
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