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cantbe323
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Geologists claim they know what causes earthquakes but can't prove it
Meteorologists claim they can accurately record the average world temperature but they can't prove it.
Astrophysics claim there's black holes, expanding universe, and a big bang, but they can,t prove it.
It seems that just the word of a recognized scientists is all that's needed to be believed.
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H. Humbert
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Posted - 01/23/2010 : 13:35:33 [Permalink]
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Name a truth about something other than yourself which can be proved.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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cantbe323
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Posted - 01/23/2010 : 14:10:08 [Permalink]
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Name a truth about something other than yourself which can be proved.>>
Good point... The difference is scientists get paid for their unprovable theories, I don't.
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filthy
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Posted - 01/23/2010 : 14:10:18 [Permalink]
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Randy
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Posted - 01/23/2010 : 14:18:01 [Permalink]
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| Just curious cantbe323, are you a Apollo moon landing denier? |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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cantbe323
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Posted - 01/23/2010 : 14:22:12 [Permalink]
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes >>
Tells it all, doesn't it. My favorite is...
There's none so blind than those who will not see.
BTW, posts for me don't appear on my E mail. How do I get them?
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filthy
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Posted - 01/23/2010 : 14:25:16 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes >>
Tells it all, doesn't it. My favorite is...
There's none so blind than those who will not see.
BTW, posts for me don't appear on my E mail. How do I get them?
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Agree.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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cantbe323
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Posted - 01/23/2010 : 14:51:17 [Permalink]
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Just curious cantbe323, are you a Apollo moon landing denier? >>
Not at all. I was working on the S2 up until the first launch. With all the problems they had, it's a wonder it got off the ground. The only thing that saved it was independent contractors at the Mississipi test facility.
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cantbe323
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Posted - 01/23/2010 : 15:03:25 [Permalink]
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"If evolution is true, you could not know that it's true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that."
-Kent Hovind >>
So true... Autopsy scientists know it's mush, but you can't get anyone else to believe it.
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Kil
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Posted - 01/23/2010 : 16:01:23 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
"If evolution is true, you could not know that it's true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that."
-Kent Hovind >>
So true... Autopsy scientists know it's mush, but you can't get anyone else to believe it.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 01/23/2010 : 16:58:16 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
Name a truth about something other than yourself which can be proved.>>
Good point... The difference is scientists get paid for their unprovable theories, I don't.
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If nothing can be proven, then everything is unprovable and absolute proof becomes a ridiculous and unattainable metric by which to measure truth claims. That's why scientists themselves never claim to prove anything absolutely. But we can achieve very high degrees of probability to the point where doubt becomes unreasonable, and a great many scientific theories have attained such a status. So I would say that your personal standards are not pragmatic and basically useless, and we'd be foolish to discard the findings of science because they don't reach a level of absolute certitude which you admit is possible to achieve anyway.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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R.Wreck
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Posted - 01/23/2010 : 20:50:36 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
"If evolution is true, you could not know that it's true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that."
-Kent Hovind >>
So true... Autopsy scientists know it's mush, but you can't get anyone else to believe it.
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The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
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Fripp
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Posted - 01/24/2010 : 08:10:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
Not at all. I was working on the S2 up until the first launch. With all the problems they had, it's a wonder it got off the ground. The only thing that saved it was independent contractors at the Mississipi test facility.
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Please provide evidence that this is accurate information.
It seems that you expect that just the word of an un-recognized scientist such as yourself is all that's needed to be believed.
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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Posted - 01/24/2010 : 12:16:44 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
Astrophysics claim there's black holes, expanding universe, and a big bang, but they can,t prove it. |
I don't see what you problem is, here. Yes, a "big bang" is generally thought to best explain the data (=facts) available. Moreover, later data have been in accords with predictions made. It's a pretty robust theory. If you disagree, please put forward an compelling interpretation of the data as we have it... |
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dglas
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Posted - 01/24/2010 : 12:59:17 [Permalink]
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Well, lessee.
We can use theories that have the potential to be proven or disproven, because they actually refer to, and are therefore contingent on, something.
Or we can use ideas that can never be proven or disproven because they don't refer to anything and are therefore not contingent on anything.
The latter we've had for thousands of years. Amounted to a quagmire of superstition, horror and early deaths.
The former we've had for a few hundred years. Lifespans have tripled and with higher standards of living, and we have accomplished amazing things.
Your call, I suppose, but science grows while non-science stagnates. Are you on the road or left in the dust. |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 01/24/2010 : 13:02:08 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
If you disagree, please put forward an compelling interpretation of the data as we have it... |
He's got none, Cune, because it's beside the point. cantbe can only criticize science for not being able to "prove" things, because the methods used aren't 100% accurate or reliable. But, of course, he's not willing to apply the same criticism to his own claims, to engineering, or to take his position all the way to its philosophical and logical conclusion: that there's no "proof" that last Wednesday occurred (a weak form of Last Thursdayism). To do so would invalidate his own life experiences, which he ironically thinks should be good evidence for at least some of his assertions. So he's forced to fall back on a cowardly selective contrarianism so he can feel smug and superior to random strangers on a small Internet forum. |
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