The moon doesn't cause ocean tides, claims UKIP MP Carswell
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davepoth said:
Evolution is not a fact because nobody has ever (or indeed will ever) be able to say that it's definitively the way that every species of organism on the planet developed.
Evolution is definitively the way that every species of organism on the planet developed.There you go, I said it.
Greg66 said:
davepoth said:
There's no such thing as a fact.
Humans need to breath oxygen to survive. Feel free to test this "so-called" fact with some personal experiments. Hopefully you'll survive the experience and be able to report back, confirming it to be the first fact you've discovered.
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davepoth said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Just saying you're wrong. Millions of things are proven. 2+2 =4 will never be proven wrong. The Earth isn't flat, the Sun doesn't orbit the Earth. Those aren't ideas, or educated stabs in the dark, they are proven facts.
There's no such thing as a fact. What we can say is that the available evidence appears to prove a theorem. If you work on the assumption that the thing you've just read in a book is infallibly and permanently true, make sure to check the cover of that book to see if you are reading the Bible.
'There's no such thing as a fact'
Does the Human Body contain a skeleton? Fact or fiction?
Greg66 said:
davepoth said:
There's no such thing as a fact.
Humans need to breath oxygen to survive. Feel free to test this "so-called" fact with some personal experiments. Hopefully you'll survive the experience and be able to report back, confirming it to be the first fact you've discovered.
It's incredibly, mind-bendingly unlikely, but until we know that no such element exists, we can't correctly state that needing oxygen is a fact.
chrispmartha said:
This place gets more bizarre each day.
'There's no such thing as a fact'
Does the Human Body contain a skeleton? Fact or fiction?
Fiction.'There's no such thing as a fact'
Does the Human Body contain a skeleton? Fact or fiction?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312985/Ja...
it doesn't happen 100% of the time so we can't say with certainty that the human body contains a skeleton, ergo not a fact.
davepoth said:
chrispmartha said:
This place gets more bizarre each day.
'There's no such thing as a fact'
Does the Human Body contain a skeleton? Fact or fiction?
Fiction.'There's no such thing as a fact'
Does the Human Body contain a skeleton? Fact or fiction?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312985/Ja...
it doesn't happen 100% of the time so we can't say with certainty that the human body contains a skeleton, ergo not a fact.
p1stonhead said:
Staggering isn't it. 'Believing in science is like believing in religion's 
Consider this."the Universe was created by God in seven days"
Fiction?
"The Universe was created by a big explosion"
Fact?
Why do you believe the second and not the first? What evidence do you have that the second is better than the first? Have you ever done any experiments to prove the big bang theory, or have you just blindly accepted it because it was written in a book?
davepoth said:
Greg66 said:
davepoth said:
There's no such thing as a fact.
Humans need to breath oxygen to survive. Feel free to test this "so-called" fact with some personal experiments. Hopefully you'll survive the experience and be able to report back, confirming it to be the first fact you've discovered.
It's incredibly, mind-bendingly unlikely, but until we know that no such element exists, we can't correctly state that needing oxygen is a fact.
davepoth said:
chrispmartha said:
OK, does your body contain a skeleton? Fact or fiction?
Last time I checked it did - messy compound fracture.But I can't see it right now, so how do I know it hasn't been replaced by something else? I just have to accept that it's probably still there.
king delivers. It's like Christmas has come early.
davepoth said:
chrispmartha said:
OK, does your body contain a skeleton? Fact or fiction?
Last time I checked it did - messy compound fracture.But I can't see it right now, so how do I know it hasn't been replaced by something else? I just have to accept that it's probably still there.
davepoth said:
Consider this.
"the Universe was created by God in seven days"
Fiction?
"The Universe was created by a big explosion"
Fact?
Why do you believe the second and not the first? What evidence do you have that the second is better than the first? Have you ever done any experiments to prove the big bang theory, or have you just blindly accepted it because it was written in a book?
There are many things which are unproven and we adapt out views based on the available evidence. However that does not mean some things are not proven beyond doubt. "the Universe was created by God in seven days"
Fiction?
"The Universe was created by a big explosion"
Fact?
Why do you believe the second and not the first? What evidence do you have that the second is better than the first? Have you ever done any experiments to prove the big bang theory, or have you just blindly accepted it because it was written in a book?
davepoth said:
chrispmartha said:
This place gets more bizarre each day.
'There's no such thing as a fact'
Does the Human Body contain a skeleton? Fact or fiction?
Fiction.'There's no such thing as a fact'
Does the Human Body contain a skeleton? Fact or fiction?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312985/Ja...
it doesn't happen 100% of the time so we can't say with certainty that the human body contains a skeleton, ergo not a fact.
"The human body does not require a skeleton".
(In fact, that condition - good to see you taking the DM at face value when you're such a sceptic - seems to be one in which bones don't mineralise or calcify. If so, the skeleton would remain cartilaginous like a shark's. And that's still a skeleton. Without a skeleton of any sort, muscles and ligaments would have nothing to attach to. So your fact would be "the human body does not require a mineralised skeleton).
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