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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: koan who wrote (571717)6/15/2010 11:27:03 AM
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You’ve provided two entry points for rich discussion: 1) beliefs, 2) limitations. I’ll begin to address beliefs in this post and we'll see where that goes... then, perhaps limitations in another.

koan: "Polls show the vast majority of Republicans do not believe in evolution (I can post one or two). The vast majority of liberals do believe in evolution. And the vast majority of scientists believe in evolution and think people who do not belive in volution are uneduated, so there is part of the reason 80% of scientists lean democratic (who are mostly liberal); and more scientists are liberal than are conservative and moderate combined.

Darwanism is a belief system. Evolution as described by Darwin is not. Evolution accounts for the adaptation and change in species; it is both observable and replicable. It does much to explain the survival of certain life forms while others move on to extinction. I see no reason to give beliefs in the ‘origin’ of species, based on Darwinian theory more weight as a science than other beliefs in origins. None can be verified according to scientific methods of observation. Evolution science is not the opposite of beliefs, it is in a completely separate zone of knowing that falls within the scientific sphere. Arguing for or against any belief system has little to do with scientific endeavor, but not nothing to do with scientific endeavor.

Any scientific endeavor begins by establishing certain assumptions which must be just accepted without hard proof. Time for example is not observable as a physical substance yet we must assume it’s operation is real and base our evidence on the time dimension and apply that to operations in the universe for any scientific study to make sense. So in this sense an assumption is synonymous with 'a belief.' We believe time is a practical dimension of our universe, while we hold the plausibility of time being an illusion in check. If we did not establish such beliefs a priori, we would not be able even to begin.
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