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Author Topic:   Age Correlations, step by step.
lfen
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Message 84 of 130 (309580)
05-06-2006 3:18 AM
Reply to: Message 61 by simple
05-05-2006 3:50 AM


Re: Another Correlation problem.
I am not a silly last thursdayist.
Okay, but then how can your position of these difference in the laws of science be falsified?
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lfen
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Message 91 of 130 (309885)
05-07-2006 12:06 AM
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05-06-2006 11:44 PM


Re: Another Correlation problem.
More importantly, how can your position that the past and future will be in the current state be falsified?
By what criteria are you rating your question as more important than mine?
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lfen
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Message 94 of 130 (309895)
05-07-2006 12:30 AM
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05-07-2006 12:18 AM


Re: Another Correlation problem.
do not teach kids your beliefs in school.
Would Math, reading, spelling, geography qualify as not beliefs?
What age would you feel it acceptable to teach beliefs? Say about Shakespeare or history, health, science? etc? High school? College? Graduate school? sometimes/always/never?
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lfen
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Message 96 of 130 (309902)
05-07-2006 1:02 AM
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05-07-2006 12:46 AM


Re: Sneak
I want to bracket "your unfounded belief that the past and future must be the same as the present". That statement is so compressed that I'm not sure what it represents at this point.
My religion is?
Real science is?
lfen

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lfen
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Message 100 of 130 (309910)
05-07-2006 1:57 AM
Reply to: Message 23 by simple
05-04-2006 12:56 PM


Re: Great Debate?
if the present mimics that pattern in what now is a day cycle, it means only that the conditions are such that this is now how it works. A change so big, so fundamental, as to affect gravity, light, and the atomic and molecular structures of matter, and etc. reducing the growth rates, and lifespans and other things happened. It will happen again, this is what I believe. Now, you can say, believe whatever you want, where is the proof, and I say the same to you.
I see. Given the way you state this which is of the form of "last Thursdayism" or of solipism because it is not falsifiable there is no way to disprove your belief.
Science does make some assumptions which you don't accept and which are not falsifiable in your terms because you can always invoke God changing the universe to make it look the way you choose.
I think you know full well the basis for science. If you wish to characterize those basic assumptions as religion I won't argue with you. As to why they are taught in school. Well, that is the science that is being done now. This is how it's being done.
You can't prove to a solipsist that anything else exists. You can't prove to a last thursdayist that the world didn't come into existence last thursday. And you can't prove to a YEC Bibical literalist that that their explanations are false.
You of course are welcome to your beliefs. Fare well and have a good life.
lfen

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