> A predictive framework that's stood for 100 years is as close to fact > as anything can be. In other words, evolution is a fact. Period.
I guess that wasn't the best example for the point I was trying to make. You are right that evolution is so well proven at this point that is passes for fact. We can observe it in action, so we do know it occurs. I wasn't really trying to debate evolution being true or not, I absolutely believe it is an accurate scientific model. The point I was trying to make is that there is no real specific delineation for when something has enough collaborating evidence to be considered fact and far too often people take a *very* short road to get to their conclusions...bias is a very strong factor and very, very hard to completely eliminate. I worked in a commercial research lab for years, so I saw this kind of thing way too often. Of course science is far from the only field where this is common, "it's a fact" is a phrase we all hear uttered about things that are not even close to that level of surety. The global warming example you mentioned is more the kind of thing I was thinking about...we might agree on the fact that warming is occurring (although the headlines today would make it appear that we still can't even agree on that) but certainly what some people consider as "proof" of the cause others would greatly disagree with. When we look at how much of our scientific knowledge today is vastly different than even just 100 years ago, one wonders how much different it will be 200, 500, 1000 years from now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:306540 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
