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Evolution has been subjected to the scientific method; it passed.

In Reply to: according to the scientists' own rules. posted by Evert Hamminga on December 06, 1999 at 11:11:02:

: : Evolution has been demonstrated in lab conditions and observed in the field. Evolution is a fact. Natural selection, Darwin's remarkable idea, is the theory which best accounts for this fact, as far as our current knowledge allows. If, at some future time, someone devises a conclusive, replicable test for the existence and action of a god, then revising our understanding might be in order. In the meantime, science still explains biology pretty well, and religious beliefs still account for our moral and ethical selves. Both are more effective at their specialties when they remain separate.

: As long as the "scientific method" cannot be applied to the (doctrine) of "evolutionism" this doctrine is supposed to be regarded as false, this is even according to the scientists' own rules.

True. But since the scientific method *can* be applied to evolution; as seen in the experimental evidence Floyd and myself have repeatedly cited, it has to be better science than those which can by definition never be subjected to the scientific method; viz the Creation, which is not falsifiable.

: No persons in whatever kind of learning institutions should be exposed to this unless they are told the truth as mentioned above.

As any career scientist will tell you, all theories are just that; theories. They are open to revision when new data is examined; they are not final statements; they are not "perfect" by any yardstick. If you can make predictions on the strength of your theory, it is useful; if not, you should revise your theory.

Gideon.

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