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Topic	Do you consider evolution to be 100% proven fact?
Sad_Face 09/09/19 1:00:02 PM #179:	We need to get away from calling it a "scientific fact" and whether or not someone believes it. Evolution is a theory that best describes a recording of observations and is incredibly accurate at predicting what should happen based on the hypotheses derived from the observations. The reason why you want to make this distinction because you need to be flexible in case things change. For instance, Hamiltonian mechanics is accurate (Force = derivative of momentum with respect to time), but then it falls off when you hit nanoscopic levels. This isn't to say Hamiltonian mechanics isn't correct, but in certain scenarios it doesn't describe the observations of a certain setting so you need to adapt a different theory to explain what's going on. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif <cite>Sad_Face posted [p:927195434] in Do you con... [t:77987770]...</cite> <quote>We need to get away from calling it a "scientific fact" and whether or not someone believes it. Evolution is a theory that best describes a recording of observations and is incredibly accurate at predicting what should happen based on the hypotheses derived from the observations. The reason why you want to make this distinction because you need to be flexible in case things change. For instance, Hamiltonian mechanics is accurate (Force = derivative of momentum with respect to time), but then it falls off when you hit nanoscopic levels. This isn't to say Hamiltonian mechanics isn't correct, but in certain scenarios it doesn't describe the observations of a certain setting so you need to adapt a different theory to explain what's going on. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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