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I only use my experience there to illustrate the contrast between the sort of science that must occur when someone is going to inject themselves with a drug vs. the kind of science that occurs when someone is waxing nostalgic about unobserved, unrepeatable, unfalsifiable events of 1 billion years ago.
People get really picky about what is and what is not science when lives are on the line.
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MehGerbil wrote: People get really picky about what is and what is not science when lives are on
the line.
Again not the best argument. Especially in terms of the medical industry. Since there are failures. And thus based on your argument one can infer that there are even more problems in science where lives are not at stake.
As an example of that...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic_touch#Therapeutic_touch_and_nursing_education[^]
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RyanDev wrote: it cannot be repeated
That doesn't mean there's no evidence that it happened.
The US War of Independence (aka "Kerfuffle in the Colonies") cannot be repeated, and there's nobody alive who remembers it. Does that mean you don't believe it happened? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That's the difference between scientific proof and historical evidence.
If evolution is proven by historical evidence then you've placed the theory into the same category as religious claims. If you remove the repeatable, observable, and falsifiable it becomes not a scientific theory but a historical claim.
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Richard Deeming wrote: That's fine. As OG said earlier[^], evolution will continue whether you believe in it or not. 
Now see, I can be cool (1) with that attitude.
I do find fundamentalist scientists to be a bit exhausting at times.
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1: Oh dear, does he deny global warming as well?
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MehGerbil wrote: I do find fundamentalist scientists to be a bit exhausting at times.
I know Richard Dawkins isn't the most popular person with either side, but I do think he summed it up quite well:
Richard Dawkins:
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by "truth". But so is everybody else. I am no more fundamentalist when I say evolution is true than when I say it is true that New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere. We believe in evolution because the evidence supports it, and we would abandon it overnight if new evidence arose to dispute it. No real fundamentalist would ever say anything like that.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yes, Richard is a fundamentalist.
He's also a very poor scientist if he doesn't understand the difference between the truth claim about New Zealand (observable, repeatable, falsifiable) and the evolution of man from an ape (not observed, not repeatable, not falsifiable).
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MehGerbil wrote: the evolution of man from an ape (not observed, not repeatable, not falsifiable).
And again, not claimed. Nobody has ever claimed that humans evolved from apes, with the possible exception of drunken students with a very poor grasp of evolution.
The fact is that we have observed evolution in other animals, albeit over a short time-frame. To assume that humans are somehow special and not subject to this same process is rather arrogant.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: The fact is that we have observed evolution in other animals, albeit over a short time-frame. To assume that humans are somehow special and not subject to this same process is rather arrogant.
I'd agree.
I don't know anyone who believes humans don't change over time.
If I meet someone like that, I'll give you a call and we can mock them together.
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MehGerbil wrote: You cannot show me the evolution of man from apes - it cannot be repeated.
Obviously not given that is not it went anyways.
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If we all want to pretend that refutes the actual point I'm game.
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"Organisation the German will perform before midnight but is not fancied to succeed."(8)
Quite easy.
BTW Yesterday's answer was PIMPERNEL
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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UNDERDOG?
Organisation: UN
"the" German: DER
Perform: DO
Sorry, can't make the last bit fit.
Not Fancied to succeed: UNDERDOG
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I see it now! Thanks.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Well Done (with the final assistance of Prerak)
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Thanks! I managed most of the heavy lifting unassisted but I couldn't quite get it onto the top shelf. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Operation "Thong" has commenced.
Which movie.
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Air on the G String
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I think Miss USA pageant is bollocks.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Blues brothers
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Thong 2: The Dark Lace
Signature construction in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Damn you have the perfect signature - CBadger
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Carry on... Girls
speramus in juniperus
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Wow, just googled Thong - did not know that Thong was the English word. In French, it is called a "string", which is pretty accurate IMO 
Anyway, I ended up on the wikipedia article, and they have a very good example picture[^] - slightely NSFW (I know, the warning gives it away).
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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