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Old 04-21-2006, 10:32 PM   #307
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Originally Posted by lizziebith
Science by majority is, in fact, the rule. It's called "peer review." You can't get published without it. Are mistakes made? Hell yeah. But the diff. between science and theology is that science will admit mistakes (for example, plate tectonic theory -- originally laughed at, now taken as obvious).


....so when the majority of scientist didn't believe in plate tectonics(less than 70 years ago) the minority that did were wrong?

....when the majority of scientist believed that there could not possibly be anything smaller than the atom were the minority wrong?

....when the majority of scientist believed that the Earth could not possibly support a billion people were the ....well, my point must be obvious now.
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