>From: "Bob Blakely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Some theories are eventually proven to be fact. At one time, the earth was >thought to be round. The ancient Greeks had even estimated it's size, but >with what was known and what could be observed at the time, we would have >to >say it was a theory. Today, we have seen it for our selves. It's no longer >theory, but fact. Other theories, a few, were eventually proven to be fact >through mathematics. Others have had to wait a long time before enough data >was available to show the theory to be fact. > >It should be noted that "theories" proposed from "tested" hypotheses by the >accepted scientific community have a dismal record even up to and including >the our time. > >Evolution will become a fact the moment we see new species arise from old, >signified by populations that have diverged from an original species that >are fertile among themselves, but no longer fertile with the original >species. For me, that is the only objective test to offer proof of a >separate species arising from a progenitor signifying that evolution has >taken place. Note that logically this will never prove that some form of >"creation" did not ever take place. We should all probably come to terms >with the fact that there are some things we can never prove or disprove. > >Regards, >Bob Blakely
Well stated, because you are separating distinctly between theory and proven fact, and relying on what is widely referred to as the scientific method to make the distinction. Too often the public is force-fed theory as if it's proven fact. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
