Nick, Doesn't that just prove the AGW
theory is false?
If the evidence does not support the theory, then suspect that
the theory is false.
Janice: If observations do not support the theory,
the the theory is FALSE.
However if I was to state that this proves that the AGW
theory is false and the Earth is actually cooling that would not necessarily be true.
If you are a scientist and your theory predicts warming but nothing happens for 17 years you are justified in assuming that
the theory is false and and belongs in the waste basket of history.
4 If the predictions are false, we conclude
the theory is false.
If the prediction of a theory fails then
the theory is false.
Rather, one can claim that the test results conflict with predictions because some other
theory is false or unrecognised.
Even if the sebum
theory is false, the two fantastic studies can not be ignored, and I believe that the answer lies in guggul gum and its derivatives» strong anti-inflammatory properties.
There has to be a way to prove a scientific
theory is false.
Calling
it a theory is false equivalence.
When virtually every expert in the field agrees that the Theory is a fact, arguing that because the details aren't all agreed on
the theory is false is silly and requires enormous hubris.
Bill explains why
this theory is false.
But they don't confuse part of the theory being weak with either the whole
theory being false or the phenomenon being false.
In this way Strauss was able to see where Reimarus had gone wrong and why his hoax
theory was false.
So it has been 130 years since the Scopes Trial, Darwin him self said if over the next century science could not discover support for complex evolution then
his theory was false.
Collective delusion, just like the luminiferous aether, caloric (even Lord Kelvin took a fair amount of convincing before he accepted that the caloric
theory was false), and many others.
Confirmation holism in the context of a complex model implies that a single element of the model can not be tested in isolation since each element depends on the other elements, and hence it is impossible to determine if the underlying
theories are false by reference to the evidence.
Not exact matches
Well, there
's the inability to process even basic information, mood swings, anger outbursts,
false memories, lack of impulse control, belligerence, paranoid tendencies to spout conspiracy
theories, and things like retweeting Mussolini.
I'll write about the bogus «China gold demand»
theory again in the future as it
's one of the most persistent
false beliefs within the bullish camp, but in this post I
'm going to quickly deal with another China - related
false belief that periodically shifts to the centre of the bullish stage: the idea that China
's government
is preparing to back the Yuan with gold.
But gun rights enthusiasts
are not mistaken to see a somewhat manipulative strategy at work — even as their baroque conspiracy
theories remain utterly
false.
Yet if Feyerabend
is correct, and an unpopular new
theory can ignore or reject experimental data long enough to get its footing, how much longer can an old and creaky
theory, buttressed by the reputations and influence and political power of hundreds of established practitioners, continue to hang in the air even when the results upon which it
is premised
are exposed as
false?
Such regress has happened before: In the nineteenth century, the (correct) vitamin C deficiency
theory of scurvy
was replaced by the
false belief that scurvy
was caused by proximity to spoiled foods.
Making a judgement about a faith,
be it Christianity or Islam, on the basis of a few extremists has about the same logical errancy as saying evolution
is false because Hitler's murderous race purification rampage
was fueled by his study of Darwin's
theory, a truth written by Hitler himself.
Behe presented the evidence for his hypothesis, Ken Miller proved how each piece of evidence he put forward
was false, and the
theory of evolution once again proved to
be the top candidate to explain the phenomena of biological changes over time.
And you say the
theory of evolution
is false because there
is, and i quote «not enough proof».
For the overpopulation literature has not only
been abandoned by thinkers for more improved science; it has actually
been so thoroughly proved
false that today's cutting - edge
theory worries about precisely the opposite: a «dearth birth» that
is «graying» the advanced world.
Your only reponse
is to argue that anything god does
is moral (Divine Command
Theory) and that
is false.
«It
is THE one
theory the ENTIRE science establishment agrees»
false — this
is what all evolutionists want everyone to believe.
You have correct definitions, except you left out the definition of a SCIENTIFIC
theory, which
is different than a regular
theory in that these
theories are true but still might
be able to
be proven
false.
Modern science does not directly imply or require any particular metaphysical
theory of reality, but it does suggest to us that the picture presented by Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins
is false because the picture
is only partial.
Science takes credit for trying to interpret what God has created (yet of course there
theories are always wrong or never proven, even after proven, often changed when found out to
be false (because scientists
are wrong all the time and think they
are right)
Science and Religion News Science and Scientism At the heart of the natural sciences
is falsifiability, the ability to prove a
theory false by experiment or observation.
Of believers / the godly / the just to whom he
is writing, he uses the pronoun «you» (v. 1,3,13) But of the ungodly / the wicked / those who
are reserved by God for judgment / the ungodly / etc the writer always designates such by the pronouns «them», «these», «their» and «they» (v. 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12,13,14,17,18,19,2021,22) So your
theory that the
false teachers of verse 1 who bring upon themselves swift destruction / perdition
are believers
is entirely a fabrication divorced from the context!
Such an opinion would presuppose the
false theory that all that
is moral
is susceptible as such of
being brought completely and explicitly before the mind by reflection.
All this would not matter,
were it not that he
is giving non biologists a largely
false picture of the state of evolutionary
theory.»
Jones
is a regular in the conspiracy -
theory arena, calling out instances like Sandy Hook, Stoneman Douglas and Aurora as «
false flags» designed to attack the Second Amendment.
This non-sense of claiming that the Hebrew calendar
is irrelevant to science and the «
theory» of evolution
is just another pig - rear
false statement with no quantifiable evidence to back that up.
orse than these fallacies
is that Beck's
theory fails to account for the majority of
false abuse allegations.
On the other hand, those components of creationism which involve certain types of magical events (e.g., the divine creation of a young universe with all of its components bearing the
false imprint of great age) make the claims of creationism untestable — making creationism not a
theory at all, because
theories must
be testable!
If the «
Theory of Evolution»
were «
false» most of biological science would
be equally «
false».
There
are also mathematical
theories such as the pythagorean theorm that we take as true because they have never
been proven
false.
The fact that this
false prophet idiot keeps getting followers really astounds me.he picks and chooses which scripture supports his
theories like its a buffet restaurant, and he seems to
be forgetting some pretty key points that the bible mentions too.Dare I mention that the bible doesn't even mention WHEN in the tribulation the so called rapture occurs?Some believe before, some during and some after..
Myths, like scientific
theories, may
be true or
false, but the test of truth or falsehood
is different.
Even if many instances of agreement with experiment do not prove that a
theory is true, it would seem that even a single counterinstance of data which disagrees with
theory should conclusively prove it
false.
But by aligning themselves with those who use a combination of racial
theory and customized theology to promote a
false narrative for the sake of Palestinian nationalism, the Telos Group
is complicit in an ideological process that
is not only anti-Israel, but one that leads to some very dark consequences.
The distinction between a proposition's ability to
be true or
false and its actual truth - value
is a significant tenet of Whitehead's
theory of propositions.
Yet the assumptions of the dominant economic
theory are rather obviously
false.
Yet «origin of species»
is still taught falsely as a
theory, even though the core notional hypothesis has
been proven
false by geology.
If someone claims the
theory of evolution
is false because it contradicts their understanding of what the Bible says, that
is not a scientific argument in the ordinary meaning of science.