Comments on: Evolutionary Theory… or Fact? http://weeklyrob.com/?p=586 Stuff I'm thinking. On a more or less weekly basis. Don't expect much. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:11:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: CASEY MARICA NOLT http://weeklyrob.com/?p=586&cpage=1#comment-1197 CASEY MARICA NOLT Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:12:20 +0000 http://weeklyrob.com/?p=586#comment-1197 I want to tell you that your children will be better people because of your writings. They will know you not only as "dad" but as an incredibly wonderful person. just and fyi.. I want to tell you that your children will be better people because of your writings. They will know you not only as “dad” but as an incredibly wonderful person. just and fyi..

]]> By: weeklyrob http://weeklyrob.com/?p=586&cpage=1#comment-1196 weeklyrob Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:56:57 +0000 http://weeklyrob.com/?p=586#comment-1196 I agree with you, of course. The point is that if you say that no theory can be a fact, then you should include all theories (and facts) together. If you're willing to say that some theories are facts, then of course you can say that some aren't. I agree with you, of course. The point is that if you say that no theory can be a fact, then you should include all theories (and facts) together.

If you’re willing to say that some theories are facts, then of course you can say that some aren’t.

]]> By: Kevin http://weeklyrob.com/?p=586&cpage=1#comment-1195 Kevin Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:41:53 +0000 http://weeklyrob.com/?p=586#comment-1195 I was with you right up to the end, when you said "Sometimes those facts will be overturned, but put them all in the same basket." Not all scientific theories deserve to be in the same basket. Some are established and accepted theories that have been tested and can now be treated as fact until we have better information (gravity, for instance, but only so far as you keep it within either the Standard Model or the quantum model). Others are mathematical proofs that cannot be tested in the real world with known technologies and should generally be kept separate from the world of facts that we use to make decisions (String theory, for instance, is a mathematical curiousity with no relavence to anyone that actually has to perform an experiment). They do not belong in the same basket. Otherwise, yes, I'm with you. I was with you right up to the end, when you said “Sometimes those facts will be overturned, but put them all in the same basket.” Not all scientific theories deserve to be in the same basket. Some are established and accepted theories that have been tested and can now be treated as fact until we have better information (gravity, for instance, but only so far as you keep it within either the Standard Model or the quantum model). Others are mathematical proofs that cannot be tested in the real world with known technologies and should generally be kept separate from the world of facts that we use to make decisions (String theory, for instance, is a mathematical curiousity with no relavence to anyone that actually has to perform an experiment). They do not belong in the same basket.

Otherwise, yes, I’m with you.

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