Re: [microsound] mp3 redux

[dbuchwald <dagmar.buchwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter,

I agree with you on creationism.  This 'theory' is set up in a way which makes
it unfalsifiable.  Therefore, according to Popper, it is a non-scientific
theory.

So no hard feelings about that.

Whether evolution theory is proven, however, I don't know.  I'd stick with this
definition of science that any theory is only provisionally proven until
disproof is possible.  That's simply a question of scientific procedure without
regard to the specific theory.

You know where I am coming from? Hm, then you know more than I do.  I mean I
know where I was born but I've been never able to state: this is my creed, this
is where I am standing at last.  Sometimes I'd be glad to be able to say that.

Dagmar

Peter McCarter wrote:

> I know where you're coming from, and I do acknowledge that some theories are
> not yet proven.  Some of Einstein's theories, for example, are still being
> tested.  Only when atomic clocks were invented were they able to test
> whether or not speed does, indeed, effect time.  (it does, by the way)
> There are, however, more hurdels for Einstein to pass.  But there *are*
> some theories that have been proven.  Evolution, for example, has been
> undeniably proven.  I don't want to get into evolution vs. creationism.
> it's a pointless argument because after all nothing precludes for
> creationism starting evolution off, but there is absoLUTELY no way of saying
> that evolution isn't true.  we can watch it happen, we *have* watched it
> happen.  It is truth in all senses of the word.
>
> > A theory is only accepted as proven as long as it was not possible to
> falsify
> > it.  There are no proven theories, only provisionally accepted working
> > theories.  Theories that cannot be falsified are non-scientific theories,
> at
> > least according to Popper.  There is no such thing as "truth" in science.
> >
> > Dagmar
> >
> > Peter McCarter wrote:
> >
> > > > ---No one can really know that. You are stating that you know that the
> > > > "asteroid" just happened to be coming our way. You're forgetting many
> > > other
> > > > plausible unexplainable causes...and until you disprove a variety of
> other
> > > > possibilities you can't without any doubt no what killed the
> dinosaurs.
> > > > Maybe "they" are thinking about killing us? Who knows??
> > > nonsense.  It is not necessary to disprove every other opposing theory
> to
> > > prove one theory.  by proving one theory to be the truth you are,
> therefore,
> > > disproving all other theories.
> > >
> > > peter
> > >
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