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Originally Posted by SpiritWarrior
But scientists only preach what evidence proves.
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Just to give a different twist to this debate: proof is in principle impossible on those areas that are unobservable due to underdetermination and Hume's induction problem.
I feel perfectly at liberty to state that evolution, which is strictly not a theory about the origin of life, only about ongoing processes within it, when extrapolated beyond what we've actually documented (I'll take for granted here that documentation does not yield 100% truth either) is similarly unobservable and thus unprovable.
That said, it is interesting to see how much scientists preach which actually isn't proven, such as the sun being in the middle of the solar system (how much sense does that make in relativity anyway?).