locutius wrote on Dec 5
th, 2008 at 2:10pm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_support_for_evolution Quote:The vast majority of the scientific community and academia supports evolutionary theory as the only explanation that can fully account for observations in the fields of biology, paleontology, anthropology, and others. One 1987 estimate found that "700 scientists ... (out of a total of 480,000 U.S. earth and life scientists) ... give credence to creation-science". An expert in the evolution-creationism controversy, professor and author Brian Alters states that "99.9 percent of scientists accept evolution". A 1991 Gallup poll of Americans found that about 5% of scientists (including those with training outside biology) identified themselves as creationists.
This is not merely argumentum ad populum, this is a community of what is recognised as our prominate thinkers who have (I assume) given a considered vote.
Right, but it has nothing to do with whether evolution is a sicentific theory.
Quote:I may struggle with this argument as I only ever went to level 10 science
We covered the scientific method in grade 10 science I think.
Quote:Firstly maybe Popper got it wrong!
Maybe, but you'll have to do better than that. Maybe he was right!
Quote:His own idea of the methodology of science is a theory is it not.
I'm not sure if that is a suitable description.
Quote:Maybe the concept of evolution is his methodology's Achilles heel.
If we have to change the definition of science just for the sake of the theory of evolution, maybe it's time we took another look at evolution, rather than science. Most practicing evolutionists acknowledge this issue in calling themselves natural historians.
Quote:The fact that a scientific theory is not certain is hardly an excuse to exclude it from science
That is not my reason.
Quote:What did Popper have to say about a theory that defies the tests to falsify it. Was it to be just fobbed off, because I would have thought the opposite would be the case. That the idea be graduated to another level of prestige.
Not sure what you are asking.
Quote:The evolution theory is scientific and falsifiability concept can be discounted because it is unscientific as we found out in this very thread.
That doesn't make sense Tallow. This is philosophy, not science. We are not doing experiments to test who is right.