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Re: The Brick Testament - More Teachings of Jesus
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Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:00:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton wrote:

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   To Tim’s point (as I’m suprised that Dave! hasn’t pointed out), there actually is NOT an overwhelming amount of evidence for the Big Bang theory. To be more accurate, there is a severe LACK of DISPROOF for the Big Bang. The Big Bang theory, if accurate, has lots of falsifiable consequences (not that I can even begin to list them or know much about them). Hence, the theory is scientific because we can set up experiments and observe the outcome. If the theory is correct, we expect to see a particular outcome. And sure enough, that’s what we’ve seen. If we saw a DIFFERENT outcome, it could invalidate the theory, and we’d need to come up with a new one. • --snip-- DaveE

I believe that many predictions of the Big Bang theory have been verified which is why I say there is an overwhelming body of evidence for it. There is admittedly far more evidence not against it but that isn’t what I was referring to.

Tim



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  Re: The Brick Testament - More Teachings of Jesus
 
(...) Well, I'm trying to be strictly accurate there. It's not that the evidence proves the conclusion, it's that the evidence doesn't contradict the conclusion. If we had (for example) two conflicting ideas about the origin of the universe (the Big (...) (18 years ago, 24-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Re: The Brick Testament - More Teachings of Jesus
 
(...) Well, that's pretty unfair. That's like saying we NEED an answer, and if we can't come up with one, creationism is correct. If you go back to 500 BC and asked people why lightning happened, I'm sure they could come up with answers. But just (...) (18 years ago, 24-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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