Neither evolution nor creation
Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory. Duane Gish
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Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory. Duane Gish
No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited. Douglas Yates
Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a faith-based initiative in rhetorical argument. Should we teach I.D. in America’s public schools? Yes, let’s do – not as science, but alongside other spiritual beliefs, such as Islam, Zoroastrianism and the Hindu Idea … Read more
We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel. David Hilbert
The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever … Read more
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it’s an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. Christopher McDougall
Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn’t need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred … Read more
Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand. Cargill Gilston Knott
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration. … Read more
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. Bertrand Russell