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- From: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
- Subject: Re: THE MIND OF THE BIBLE BELIEVER
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.190126.5699@aurora.com>
- Reply-To: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
- Organization: The Aurora Group
- References: <106260@netnews.upenn.edu> <1k182mINN3d1@dmsoproto.ida.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 19:01:26 GMT
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- In article <1k182mINN3d1@dmsoproto.ida.org> rlg@omni (Randy garrett) writes:
- >: philosophy of science section. Find things written by Karl Popper,
- >
- >I was taking a more mathematically rigorous definition of the
- >term "prove" than the original poster perhaps intended.
-
- Then perhaps your mistake was in applying that definition to
- anything outside the realm of mathematics. Nothing at all can
- ever be proved (in the mathematical sense) unless you have the
- luxury of being able to define the universe it is to be proved
- in.
-
- In The Real World, we deal with levels of evidence, which range
- from nonexistent to weak to strong, but are never absolute. The
- evidence for evolution is overwhelming. (Take a couple dozen
- college level biology courses if you doubt this.) I don't think
- anybody, even Creationists, can seriously challenge the idea that
- the evidence supports evolution far better than any other theory
- that's ever been proposed.
- --
- Mark Isaak "Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every
- isaak@aurora.com generation is humbled by nature." - Philip Lubin
-