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Simple question with a 'yes' or 'no' answer. I'm leaving the terms of the poll undefined, so please leave a post with your own definitions of 'evolution' and 'theory', and perhaps a short explanation of your answer.
Danke!
Theory = an educated guess, based on empirical observation, pending falsification.
That depends if you honor the marriage of evolution and genetics. Evolution is a theory, genetics is a fact. If you want to join them together then you have talk origin making statements like "evolution is a fact and a theory". Genetics today is considered to be 99.9999% accurate. Or 1 in 100,000 rate of error. Although when you take human error into consideration I doubt if you can consider it to be that accurate.Simple question with a 'yes' or 'no' answer. I'm leaving the terms of the poll undefined, so please leave a post with your own definitions of 'evolution' and 'theory', and perhaps a short explanation of your answer.
Danke!
Theory = an educated guess, based on empirical observation, pending falsification.
The additive and subtractive color theory have not been proven. Yet we use them every day in many ways. With the multi verse theory science today tends to lean toward everything is real rather than to say nothing is real.Theories are never proven.
His definition, as given, encompasses both hypotheses and theories. What is a theory if not an educated guess? What is a theory if it's not grounded in empirical observation? What is a theory if it's not awaiting falsification?You mean as opposed to how scientists use the term "theory"?
Theory: A scientific theory summarizes a hypothesis or group of hypotheses that have been supported with repeated testing. A theory is valid as long as there is no evidence to dispute it. Therefore, theories can be disproven. (SOURCE)
I think what you mean, AV, is "Hypothesis".
An hypothesis is an educated guess based on observation. (ibid)
At least that is how it is usually taught to 6th graders and above.
Interesting fact. If a test is accurate 99,999 times out of 100,000, and you want to test for something that occurs in 1 in 10,000 people - i.e., a very accurate test for a very rare thing - how many false positives will there be? That is, if this test is used to jail people, how many innocents will be jailed?That depends if you honor the marriage of evolution and genetics. Evolution is a theory, genetics is a fact. If you want to join them together then you have talk origin making statements like "evolution is a fact and a theory". Genetics today is considered to be 99.9999% accurate. Or 1 in 100,000 rate of error. Although when you take human error into consideration I doubt if you can consider it to be that accurate.
Maybe but Texas had to release a lot of so called rapists because when they ran the DNA they found out they were innocent. DNA testing cost money so your going to have to have done something to cause them to want to spend the money to test you. They can only afford to put a small number of people in prison. So it should not be to difficult to stay out of that group.In other words, if we use an extremely accurate test to jail people for something that's rare in the overall populace (e.g., "predisposition to child abuse/terrorism/liberalism"), then using those statistics, a full 10% of people jailed by the test would be completely innocent.
Scary.
They can only afford to put a small number of people in prison. So it should not be to difficult to stay out of that group.
From: Incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOn January 1, 2008 more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States were in prison or jail.
In 2008 approximately one in every 31 adults (7.3 million) in the United States was behind bars, or being monitored (probation and parole). In 2008 the breakdown for adults under correctional control was as follows: one out of 18 men, one in 89 women, one in 11 African-Americans (9.2 percent), one in 27 Latinos (3.7 percent), and one in 45 whites (2.2 percent).
Could you define 'verified'?Evolution is a theory.
Evolution: Descent with modification.
Theory: A verified hypothesis.
Could you define your terms, please?micro-evolution is a theory, Macro-evolution is a hypothesis or less.
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