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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (244910)8/5/2005 12:43:10 AM
From: d[-_-]b  Read Replies (3) of 1576893
 
tigerpaw,

re:a hypothesis is also required to conform to the known facts and be testable.

No - a hypothesis is something taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation, aka an assumption.

The proofs or tests of "Intellegent design" are thin to put it mildly.

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It's not usefull to force students to address every crackpot idea


It's very useful to have an understanding of current theories or popular thought. Of course not every "crackpot" idea - they forced a number of popular ideas in our heads when I was in grade school - like the population bomb which fell flat due to bad/junk science - but at the time everyone believed it and the author was hailed a genius.
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