Dixie - In Memoriam
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Which wasn't science.
What wasn't science? Mapping of the human genome?
Yes, it was.
Which wasn't science.
What wasn't science?
The fact that you won't shut up with this silliness is proof you must be a mental retard. I am through discussing this, it's been discussed in well over 2 dozen threads, and over 5,000 posts to date. So I think everything that could possibly be said about 1/3 has been said. If you need to go back and read it all again, there is a nice "search" feature Damo has for just such queries. Have at it!
It doesn't matter. The fact that you are still claiming that one cannot be equally divided into three is a serious problem, and casts doubt on your mental stability. I have, at least, proven that 0.999999e = 1, so you can draw your conclusions from there.
Only absurd special pleadings that were designed specifically to be untestable, like god.
They will always defy the ability to test them ,because their propents will invent an infinite number of different untestable special pleadings as to why they can't be tested.
And this is the strength of science. That it revises it's findings with new evidence, unlike other philosophies of knowledge. That's what makes science great. It doesn't DETRACT from science!
Thread effectively derailed.
Well your thread was to SCREAM that 6% of scientists are Republican!
Since the vast majority of working scientists in America, are recipients of some form of government grant, it makes me wonder what those 6% Republicans are thinking! Maybe those 6% are working on republican science... you know, making bigger bombs and seeing how much of the RDA they can get into a can of Alpo for the old folks!
I have to wonder though... Anyone who earns a graduate degree in a field of science, can technically say they are a "scientist" ...so did they do a poll of every person who has a science degree? I didn't get my questionnaire! Or maybe this was a poll of the Annual Pinhead Atheist Science Club, where 100 pinhead atheists showed up, and 6 of them decided to say they were republicans so they would have a better shot at the door prize?
You mean an absolute fact, don't you?Science has never determined a single thing as conclusive fact.
That's a fact!
I think Dixie meant "absolute fact" and not "Conclusive Fact". Science has drawn conclusions about all sorts of facts, like gravity, of which none are absolute facts. Dixie is correctly pointing out that all science is tentative.You may have a difference of opinion about the fact of gravity, but that's not going to work out very well for you when you're falling.
I have a hard time taking this poll seriously. The right wing extremist in the Republican party has certainly alienated scientist with their reactionary ways. Scientist are an objective lot. Having said that, does this poll discount Engineers as scientist? Most engineers I know are not just conservative but tend to be intensely conservative. By engineering standards SM is a liberal.Dixie, unbeknownst to him, is proving my point very well.
The reason six percent of scientists are Republicans is precisely because people like Dixie and the rest of his party are vehemently ANTI science and JUMP at the opportunity to rail against it, as Mr. BS himself is presently doing.
Science has never determined a single thing as conclusive fact.
That's a fact!
You mean an absolute fact, don't you?
I think Dixie meant "absolute fact" and not "Conclusive Fact". Science has drawn conclusions about all sorts of facts, like gravity, of which none are absolute facts. Dixie is correctly pointing out that all science is tentative.
The scientific definition of "Fact" is different from the everyday definition. Just like the definition of "Theory" is different in the scientific world as opposed to our every day conversations.
Technically Dixie is almost correct.
usidiot: Almost correct is about as close as Dixie ever gets.
LOL... and copying someone's stupid one-liners is about as close as usidiot ever gets to an original thought!
I would rather be correct than origional and wrong.
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