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[I]Remember what the dormouse said, 'feed your head'. [/I] |
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There is a theory of gravity because we do not know what makes it work. Gravity itself is a fundamental force in the universe. Its existance is not theororetical.
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[b][SIZE=2]"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."[/b][/SIZE] -Thomas Jefferson |
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I'm no philosophy expert, but I do remember that he had some interesting things to say about perception, causation, and 'rational' behavior. I also remember (as a math guy) that Hume did not believe in the validity of induction or strong induction as instruments of proof (a concept with which I do not agree, at least in the mathematical sense).
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[I]They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator. . . . Therefore, God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature.[/I] - Romans 1:25-26 Use liberals artistic manipulation of logic and language against them. |
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That is what is exasperating - people conflate scientific terms and layman's terms and then use this bastardized half-breed vocabulary to reach nonsensical conclusions. I have no problem with people believing whatever they want to believe, but I do have a problem when certain people capitalize on semantics, misunderstanding, and unreasonable doubt to manipulate others into buying into things that don't make sense. This was my original intention with this thread - to lay out the difference between "theory" in science and "theory" in common speech. If scientists were speaking as laypeople, and not subject to rigorous scientific definition, they would say "the fact of gravity", "the fact of relativity", and "the fact of evolution". They only call them "theories" because a scientific "theory" is much different from its co-opted cousin in day to day language. It irritates me when people misuse this discrepancy to make what they incorrectly believe to be a point.
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LMAO. YOU must be one ultra-irritated fellow then That is mostly what is done here (what you describe). You still have any hair on your head ?
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[I]They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator. . . . Therefore, God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature.[/I] - Romans 1:25-26 Use liberals artistic manipulation of logic and language against them. |
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Even a quick dictionary search will list the two different uses of the word:
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[SIZE="2"][FONT="Impact"][URL="http://www.myspace.com/speakeasy81"]My Awesome Songs[/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] "[I]I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people[/I]." —Governor Angus King |
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[SIZE="2"][FONT="Impact"][URL="http://www.myspace.com/speakeasy81"]My Awesome Songs[/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] "[I]I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people[/I]." —Governor Angus King |
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