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Stop being such an arrogant little twit.

I'll admit we do have a helluva lot of evidence for evolution, but that doesn't necessarily mean for 100% sure it's true. Since we can't actually go back and observe all life-forms over the last 4 billion or so years Earth has been around, there is always a chance we've got it wrong.

I can even reverse your argument on you. Before people knew the world was round, they were SURE that it was flat. Before Copernicus, everyone thought the sun revolved around the world. But it turns out they were incorrect, because they didn't have enough information and so they came to the wrong conclusion.

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

Ah, but we have discovered that in fact Newtonian gravity isn't really an accurate model. It's simply a simple and convenient model that is usually the most useful; it is "good enough" because the error from approximation is small enough not to matter. But the theory of relativity makes everything all complicated with space-time curvature and whatnot.

And if evolution as we know it is ever "disproven", that's the sort of way in which it'll be disproven: not something that forces us to declare evolution a lie and start over from the beginning with something completely different, but rather something that would still fit in with our current understanding.



Would 99.9% be good enough?

- Kef

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Would 99.9% be good enough?/quote]
Yes. It would be. It would definitely be good enough to, for all intents and purposes, accept as fact. Just sayin' that it could be wrong.

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

Yeah, but pretty much anything could be wrong by that token. How do we really know Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States? None of us here were alive then.

- Kef

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Well, maybe he wasn't.

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

Not to mention that even things you witness with your own eyes and ears can be questionable... especially if it's been a while. You could have been hallucinating. Maybe your memory is faulty.

My point being, this talk about "100% certainty" is rather meaningless anyway since nothing is 100% certain. Except death and taxes.

- Kef

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That's kind of the point I was trying to make.

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Ah. In that case, we agree.

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