On 2/19/2014 5:06 AM, Tim wrote:
thumper wrote:

It is an unfortunately common (and dishonest) creationist tactic to take
relatively small scientific controversies or corrections and equivocate
to infer that the whole field is unreliable.

As one of my mentors once said "All simulations (models) are wrong, some
are useful."


Thumper, I'm not discounting anything you've said.For the most part I'm in agreement. The problem that I have is when people boast that if science can't or at least hasn't prove something then that concept is total nonsense.

I haven't said that.

Not necessarily nonsense but its place and emphasis in a science
curriculum should be roughly proportional to the supporting evidence.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.


The god of the gaps is shrinking slowly.

But till has a looooong way to go.

Is that really where you want to hang your hat...?