--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote: > > I am assuming that you are using the second example > to prove that the first assumption is incorrect. > Hence, proving once in for all that science is not > to be trusted > Mario replies: > Elisabeth, Actually, I did not use any assumptions. Both the principles of flight and of gravity are absolutely correct and predictable, hence proving that science, properly applied, can be absolutely trusted. > Let me give you some more simple tests that should convince you that science can be trusted. > Go to the top of a building and jump off. Science predicts with absolute certainty that you will fall to the ground. See for yourself whether you can trust this prediction or not :-)) > Then add 2 plus 2. I predict with absolute certainty that the answer will be 4. Try this again and again and see if the answer comes out different. > Then take a steel cube and multiply the length by the breadth by the height to get the volume. Then using the water displacement method see if this comes out any different. > Boil water the same way wherever you are again and again and see if the boiling temperature changes. > Elisabeth writes: > > This is the same type of rationalisation that > Conservatives use to prove that evolution is a > myth. > Mario responds: > Based on my examples above, we see that science is not rationalisation, so you have lost your connection with conservatism :-)) Rationalization is what the modern political ultra-liberal secular humanists and atheists use. > You are probably incorrectly confusing conservatives with the religious nuts who believe that the Bible was written by Jesus, in modern English :-)) I am a conservative and I do not believe that evolution is a myth, but there are still missing links in the Darwinian theory, and no one has been able to prove what existed before the Big Bang. > Elisabeth writes: > > Monkey's bottom red, man's bottom not red. Hence man > could not have evolved from monkey. > Mario responds: > This sounds more like the kind of logic used by modern political liberals who "know" what's best for everyone else, better than they do:-)) > For example, one man is rich, other man is poor, hence the rich man must have exploited the poor man. > Another example, Goan's and Goan businesses are hiring non-Goans to get their work done, hence the Goan Kunbis and Gaudis are being exploited and Goa is "importing poverty". > Yet another, global warming MAY be taking place, hence the western industrial countries must be to blame, while exempting India and China. >
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