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Originally posted by Leonis:
Interesting. Evolutionists have faith in an unproven theory. Fair enough, why not? It's a good theory. Does this mean evolutionary scientists are not?[/QB]
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You say, “Unproven” But there is a difference,
There is Evidence to back it (evolution) up. It is not proven in the sense that we can say, “Yes evolution is Definitely true” we cannot say anything is Definitely true, we can’t even prove that other people exist.
But there is good reason to think it is true, more so than any other of the alternatives, and that is the important thing. More so than any other alternative based on the sum of human experience.
So for this temporal moment, it is fair to say in colloquial usage that Evolution is true. It's only when we start getting all HARD CORE philosophical that we start having to engage chin stoking mode.
I would say for example that I have more reason to logically believe that the system of scientific observation that has given rise to Science and Evolution to be true, than for example placing blind faith in creationism.
(Though I still cannot be totally sure, but for everyday purposes rather than artificial philosophical ones, it holds as true until something better comes along)
[ 01-27-2003, 04:35 PM: Message edited by: Eisenschwarz ]