All this belief in the supernatural just goes to show that people will only believe what they want to believe.
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All this belief in the supernatural just goes to show that people will only believe what they want to believe.
'You can't handle the truth'
If you can prove your case James Randi has $1m for you.
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However I read recently that this has been found - this fully supports now the evolutionism theory.
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Hi Karin - yes, this new fossil "supports" evolutionary theory but we are still a long way from validating it to the extent that it can be regarded as science-fact. Evolution remains a theory, albeit a well-supported theory.
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True - We can only be 99.9999% certain at the moment.Originally Posted by piggi
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Actually it is, because it is unproven.
Indeed it is minus any real validation in some important respects. Therefore it is a theory.
Once upon a time the majority of scientists believed that the earth was flat. That too was a theory which many argued was "fact."
They were wrong.
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Not even close...True - We can only be 99.9999% certain at the moment.
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You correctly stated that scientists are quite often wrong.Actually it is, because it is unproven.
Indeed it is minus any real validation in some important respects. Therefore it is a theory.
Once upon a time the majority of scientists believed that the earth was flat. That too was a theory which many argued was "fact."
They were wrong.
Did you know that even Issac Newton believed in alchemy - the belief that you could turn base metals into Gold. Yup he was a scientist but way off the mark on that one. But it wasnt the church that disproved him. It was other scientists.
Do you believe the earth is round? I mean it is scientific conjecture that it is.
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Well how about you give us a list of /proofs/theories with their corresponding percentage of factual data so that we can all see which one seems most believable.
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Well, it is not really round - actually it is quite uneven.
Do you believe the earth is round? I mean it is scientific conjecture that it is.
The usual descriptor of Earth's shape is an oblate ellipsoid.
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Well with the prescence of Mountains and Trenches in the Oceans I would have thought that it was perfectly obvious it aint a billiard ball.Well, it is not really round - actually it is quite uneven.
The usual descriptor of Earth's shape is an oblate ellipsoid.
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Ok - but I only have time for a few, very busy here at HQ, as we're currently having the Shite-Hawks re-braided. Big job, what with the squawking and the smell of fear.
Anyway, here you go:
Theory: "You can't fit quicker than a Kwik-Fit fitter!" (TV Advert)
Proof: 0.00%
Reason: They're all about 12 and keep going out for a smoke
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Theory: "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink!" (Traditional saying)
Proof: 100.00%
Reason: Horses will never just do what you ask them, they always have to have their own way.
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Theory: "A week is a long time in politics" (Thatcher)
Proof: 100.00%
Reason: Any time at all spent in the company of politicians seems endless......
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Theory: "The fastest car in the world is a rental car!" (Homer Simpson)
Proof: c50.00%
Reason: It is not a question of rental cars in general but rather one of which car you have rented. Its speed can be negatively indexed along a quanta curve of the degree to which the driver's wife nags him about speed, etc.
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Theory: "All men are bastards!" (All Women)
Proof: 0.00%
Reason: The data-set from which the above truism was derived is a sub-set of the responses of men to grossly unfair demands, made by women who spend too much time reading about "relationships" in such magazines as Cosmopolitan. The articles are mostly written by gay men or coked-up twenty-something ya-yas whose boyfriends are submissive closet-cases.
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All right, that's yer lot.
Now, where's my re-braiding hook...?
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