--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > --- akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Off, the main reason ID is not taken seriously by
> > > > science is that it introduces a metaphysical
> > > concept
> > > > (ie, a creator) that is not open to scientific
> > > > inquiry. If you can not measure/quantify a central
> > > > concept of a hypothesis, it's not science.
> > > 
> > > And thusly, much of string theory is and must always
> > > be non-science.
> > 
> > I don't know enough about string theory. But they must
> > link the concepts back to quantifiable concepts, yes?
> > That is, they wouldn't introduce a concept that was
> > unmeasurable.
> 
> I can't explain the reasoning, but I have heard prominent physicists
> say the above -- that (parts of ) it can never be tested  or 
verified.
> Maybe it is the 13 dimension thing. And he said thusly, string 
theory
> is not science. 
> 
> I am just suggesting that a hard and fast rule may be problematic.
> String Theory sure looks like science to me. But I am an 
acknowledged
> retard.

Scientists make lousy philosophers of science, in general.




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