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Old 10-14-2007, 05:56 PM
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"The main reason it will never be invalidated is simple: it is an ever changing theory that is not set in stone"

Is exactly why it isn't true science... it is as sketchy as the minds that need it to be real. Every hoping something will come along ad lend credence to its absurd hypothesis.
I am not sure what you consider to be "true science", but its a very common thing in science that existing models and theories are modified to be able coping with the new state of knowledge.

That theories are not carved out of stone is in fact a very pillar of science. No theory ever can be really "proven", but it can be rejected if experiments show contradiction on a reproductive basis. Of course this does not fit our human habits well, so many use the word "proven", I might have used it already myself as well. But it effectively means that it has survived already so many attempts to disprove it that the probability is quite high that its a correct theory.

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Evolution disproves itself, anyone intellectually honest can't and won't give it the time of day.
Sorry I dont understand that. Could you elaborate on this argument?
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