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Dawkins on the Truth of Evolution

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rightwinger32/17/2009 6:24:40 pm PST
Whence, then, comes the oft-parroted canard, “Evolution is only a theory”? Perhaps from a misunderstanding of philosophers who assert that science can never demonstrate truth. All it can do is fail to disprove a hypothesis. Evolution is an unfalsified hypothesis – one that was vulnerable to falsification but has so far survived. Scientists generally don’t mind this kind of philosopher and even thank him for taking care of such matters, thereby freeing them to get on with advancing knowledge. They might, however, venture that what is sauce for the goose of science is sauce for the gander of everyday experience. If evolution is an unfalsified hypothesis, then so is every fact about the real world; so is the very existence of a real world.

Good points. Same with Electricity and Electronics theory which I just happened to have tested today. Voltage is cool in an open circuit. Close that circuit and see what happens. Kind of sucks for a theory to prove itself once again. Shocking actually.