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Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever valu...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a for...

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The Earth Speaks, clearly, distinctly, and, in many of the realms of Nature, loudly, to William Jenn...

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The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact th...

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The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has on...

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Max PlanckScientific Autobiography and Other Papers

I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called c...

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I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in s...

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. . .a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exist...

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Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league a...

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William A. DembskiUncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it...

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