Comments on: ‘Just a Theory’ http://mdickson.com/blog/science/6/ Words of Mass Dissemination Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:31:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on ‘Just a Theory’ by: Josh Braun http://mdickson.com/blog/science/6/#comment-6 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:46:52 +0000 http://mdickson.com/blog/science/6/#comment-6 Excellent post! I <a href="http://thinkery.blogs.com/the_thinkery/2005/11/just_a_theory.html" rel="nofollow">trackback'd your post</a>, but I'm not sure it went through. In any event, you've touched on a personal pet peeve of mine. It absolutly drives me nuts when folks become dismissive of any set of ideas because they're "just theories", and this happens nowhere else in my experience so often as in the evolution/ID debates. Thanks for the well-articulated distinctions between fact, theory and the way we often misuse both notions. Excellent post! I trackback’d your post, but I’m not sure it went through. In any event, you’ve touched on a personal pet peeve of mine. It absolutly drives me nuts when folks become dismissive of any set of ideas because they’re “just theories”, and this happens nowhere else in my experience so often as in the evolution/ID debates. Thanks for the well-articulated distinctions between fact, theory and the way we often misuse both notions.

]]> Comment on ‘Just a Theory’ by: The Thinkery http://mdickson.com/blog/science/6/#comment-5 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:38:32 +0000 http://mdickson.com/blog/science/6/#comment-5 <strong>Just a Theory</strong> Michael at WMD has posted a wonderful dissemination of that horrible slogan, "It's just a theory." Usually we see this used in phrases such as, "Evolution is just a theory," or "Evolution is a fact, not just a theory." Ever Just a Theory

Michael at WMD has posted a wonderful dissemination of that horrible slogan, “It’s just a theory.” Usually we see this used in phrases such as, “Evolution is just a theory,” or “Evolution is a fact, not just a theory.” Ever

]]> Comment on ‘Just a Theory’ by: Right Reason http://mdickson.com/blog/science/6/#comment-4 Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:14:10 +0000 http://mdickson.com/blog/science/6/#comment-4 <strong>The Culture of Conservatives</strong> This post is a response to a recently posted comment to the "But Am I a Conservative?" thread that grew beyond reasonable limits for a response. The comment (see here; scroll down) is by my colleague, Michael Dickson, who, incidentally,... The Culture of Conservatives

This post is a response to a recently posted comment to the “But Am I a Conservative?” thread that grew beyond reasonable limits for a response. The comment (see here; scroll down) is by my colleague, Michael Dickson, who, incidentally,…

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