From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) Subject: Re: Crocodiles [was: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers] Date: 1997/06/12 Message-ID: <199706121251.OAA27987@basement.replay.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 247874559 References: <339EEBD8.22F8@no.such.com> Organization: Replay and Company UnLimited X-001: Replay may or may not approve of the content of this posting Mail-To-News-Contact: postmaster@nym.alias.net X-002: Report misuse of this automated service to X-URL: http://www.replay.com/remailer/ Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: <19970609.5A1DA0.14F78@an194.du.pipex.com> <199706111259.OAA29188@basement.replay.com> On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 18:18:00 GMT, Spam Hater wrote: > > There is one prediction the Croc o' Dile theory makes that Newtonian > > physics doesn't: The Croc o' Dile theory predicts the existence of the > > invisible crocodiles that cause the motion of the planets. ALL > > predictions made by a scientific theory MUST be subject to potential > > disproof; therefore, if the Croc o' Dile theory is a scientific theory, > > there must be some possible experiment or observation that would > > disprove this prediction if the theory is incorrect. If no such disproof > > is possible, the theory is not science, and will be dismissed by > > scientists. > > I really _thought_ I was out of this thread.... Sorry! > > Do you allow "prediction" to refer to the past? If so, most of the > "predictions" of Darwinian evolutionary theory can be neither proved > nor disproved, and so "the theory is not science, and will be > dismissed by scientists." Since evolution has been observed in action, the predictions of the theory (in the future) have had opportunities of disproof, but were not disproved. No theory can be proved. Jeff Carter PGP:1024/440FBE21 My real e-mail address: ( carter @ innocon . com ) "Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time." Monty Python & the Holy Grail Posted with Spam Hater - see http://www.compulink.co.uk/~net-services/spam/