RE: Def'n of Science

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:55:18 -0800

You wrote: What exactly is science defined as? As I understand the scientific method,
in order to establish something indisputably, it must be replicable. Where
does this leave much of the investigation into the distant past with issues
such as evolution/creation?

Science does not say that the actual events are replicable but that the observations are replicable.

Don't get me wrong, I am not against examining the evidence we have now, but
I sometimes wonder 'just how much can we actually establish?' I hear people
assume evolution has been proven, and others saying it's been disproven: is
either statement valid? CAN either be?

Science does not deal in absolute proof. But I would be interested in the evidence that disproved evolution.