Comment at http://headymusings.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/words
Words are important, after all, if you are engaged in a discussion then you will not get very far if the two of you mean something completely different by the same word. But unless you are a philologist then debates over words should never be the most important thing.
Science is about theories (explanations) [...]
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From the Critical Cafe, 15 July 2009:
I don’t see how a theory could be ‘rational’ or ‘irrational’. It’s possible for a person to behave rationally, and therefore to adhere to a theory rationally.
It’s also possible for people to assent to the idea that a particular person is behaving (or adhering to a theory) rationally. Science [...]
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From the Critical Cafe:
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Evolution is an incomplete theory. The task of science regarding this theory is to add statements that would make it predictable.
This is possible thanks to research in genetics and molecular biology that unveils the structure of organic compounds and life.
Once the evolution mechanism is unveil, prediction mechanism could be part of [...]
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