--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 8/15/05 12:25 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> (Scientific theories are never "proven," Shemp.) > > > > > > I thought that was the whole idea behind science: that the theory > > gets proven by repeatable, verificable scientific experiments. > > The evidence gets stronger and stronger, but they are never proven, because > there is always the possibility that contrary evidence could arise.
In fact, contrary evidence almost always arises. What makes a theory stronger isn't the amount of evidence that accrues, but the refinement that results from eliminating and/or revising falsified parts of the theory-sequence. There's no such thing as a scientific "theory," but only a sequence of theories that have been tweaked over some period of time. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
