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=2.0 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_40, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: Spam Hater Subject: Re: Crocodiles [was: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers] Date: 1997/06/11 Message-ID: <339EEBD8.22F8@no.such.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 247709093 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc02 References: <19970609.5A1DA0.14F78@an194.du.pipex.com> <199706111259.OAA29188@basement.replay.com> Organization: See Warning Below! Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > 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.... 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." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be Don't send advertisements to this domain unless asked! All disk space on fw.hac.com hosts belongs to either Hughes Defense Communications or the United States government. Using email to store YOUR advertising on them is trespassing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------