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Old 04-09-2008, 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by DanishDynamite View Post
Current science is just another word for "our best possible model of how the world around us works". No one as far as I know "believe" in Science as a religion. There are no dogmas, no high-priests, no magic signs. There is just the exploration of our world and the knowledge we reliably acrue about it.

No, it doesn't disprove earlier findings. New models just explain more than previous ones.

Once again, science never proves anything. It just eliminates alternatives. And I don't recall any scientific model saying the Earth was flat. In fact the Ancient Greeks showed the Earth was a sphere and Science wasen't even invented untill 1500 years later.
Where do you dig this stuff up?

Not understood.

Sorry, but it seems to me you have no understanding of the scientific method at all. Please read up about this simple idea, perhaps in Wikipedia.

Not understood.

We are all mortals. Hard to face when first you realize it, but easier to accept as time goes by.
Spoken like a true extremist.

Read my other comment you missed.
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I'm an independent for one thing not a liberal. Just because I think Bush is an incompetent leader doesn't make me liberal, doesn't even exclude me from being republican, I choose to weigh up his actions and determine my own opinion, over blind party loyalty.
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