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Ja, om man skriver nog mycket text s kanske det som r falskt blir sant, vem vet. Repetition av nonsens r tydligen en mekanism som anvnds med framgng inom kulter osv, men jag r relativt immun mot det.
Ursprungligen postat av EliasAlucard
Is it a Theory? Is it a Law? No, its a fact.
https://richarddawkins.net/2015/11/i...no-its-a-fact/
Jag citerar inte hela artikeln, men lite utdrag, tre punkter r text jag har strukit:
1) Evolutionsteorin r fakta.
2) Strngteorin r inte en vetenskaplig teori.
3) "Teori" anvnds ofta missvisande nr man egentligen menar hypotes, ven bland vetenskapsmn.
4) Newtonisk mekanik r just vetenskapliga lagar, och inte falsifierade lagar.
Notera ocks det fetmarkerade om att ni "filosofer" kan frvntas frvrnga ordet "fakta"; hoppas att du, BuggaMigInte, knner dig trffad
Och notera ven det fetmarkerade dr Dawkins sger att evidence fr evolution r s vervldigande att det vore perverst att frneka det. Tror du att Dawkins snackar om matematiskt "proof" eller just svenskans bevis med ordvalet evidence, dr? Retorisk frga.
Men ja, vad ska jag sga? Great minds think alike
Och du BuggaMigInte, vet frsts bttre n sjlvaste Dawkins, eftersom Dawkins r "vrickad", lol.
S i alla fall, tidigare i trden hvdade du:
Och nu har du ftt det svart p vitt, frn en av vrldens ledande evolutionsbiologer, att evolutionsteorin r just obestridlig fakta. Jag vntar med stor spnning p ditt tunga intellektuella svar
Det sagt, min pong tidigare i trden str kvar: vetenskapliga teorier r synonymt med fakta, och kommer aldrig, aldrig, aldrig ngonsin att falsifieras. Spelar ingen roll om vissa smdetaljer i de olika vetenskapliga teorierna falsifieras nr nya bevis uppdagas; den vetenskapliga teorin som helhet falsifieras inte bara fr att forskare fick ngon mindre detalj om bakfoten; man reviderar bara missfrstndet utefter de nya bevisen, och drigenom r vetenskapen sjlvkorrigerande och inte "vetenskapen ndras hela tiden", lol.
https://richarddawkins.net/2015/11/i...no-its-a-fact/
Jag citerar inte hela artikeln, men lite utdrag, tre punkter r text jag har strukit:
by Richard DawkinsNotera att han sger mer eller mindre exakt det jag har sagt genom den hr trdens gng (och jag skrev det helt oberoende av Dawkins; frsta gngen jag lste artikeln just idag, nr jag frskte hitta klippet ifrga):
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Our habit of referring to the theory of evolution is similarly used to mislead. Huge numbers of people are bamboozled by the phrase Only a Theory. This essay is designed to remove confusion by abandoning the word theory altogether, when talking to creationists.
Today the dominant reply to the creationist only a theory bleat is to explain that the meaning of theory in science is different from everyday usage, which is synonymous with hypothesis. In The Greatest Show on Earth I quoted two definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary:
Theory, Sense 1: A scheme or system of ideas or statements held as an explanation or account of a group of facts or phenomena; a hypothesis that has been confirmed or established by observation or experiment, and is propounded or accepted as accounting for the known facts; a statement of what are held to be the general laws, principles, or causes of something known or observed.The party line among scientists arguing for evolution is to promote Sense 1, and I have followed it until today. But now I want to depart from the party line. I now think that trying to clear up this terminological point about the meaning of theory is a losing battle. We should stop using theory altogether for the case of evolution and insist, instead, that evolution is a fact.
Theory, Sense 2: A hypothesis proposed as an explanation; hence, a mere hypothesis, speculation, conjecture; an idea or set of ideas about something; an individual view or notion.
Philosophers, I am aware, can be relied upon to cloud even the word fact. A fact can never be more than a hypothesis on probation, a hypothesis that has so far withstood all attempts to falsify it. The more strenuous those attempts, the closer we come to endowing the accolade of fact. I am fond of Stephen Jay Goulds way of putting it. In science, fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent. I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Courts of law, newspapers, and all of us in everyday life use the word fact in a way that few have difficulty in understanding. It is a fact that New Zealand is in the Southern Hemisphere (Barack Obama is the US President, it is now raining in Oxford, grass is green etc). It is this everyday usage of fact that we should be concerned with when we advocate evolution to lay audiences. We are failing to get across Theory, Sense 1. Lets dump it and talk frankly of evolution as a fact, from which it would be perverse to hold assent.
Our failure to get across Sense 1 is partly blamed on an everyday tendency to leap straight to Sense 2: theory as tentative mere hypothesis. But we must admit that scientists themselves use theory in a way that might strike the poor layman as confusingly inconsistent. String Theory has elements of Sense 1. It is indeed a scheme or system of ideas or statements but it is very far from being confirmed or established by observation or experiment. It isnt even clear how anyone might set about testing it by observation or experiment. Yet it is always called String Theory, not String Hypothesis.
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Charles Darwin made frequent reference to his theory, and in his time it was a theory in Sense 2: a hypothesis whose supporting evidence at the time persuaded some scientists but by no means all. In the succeeding century and a half it has moved from Sense 2 to Sense 1, indicating that there is a continuum, in this case historically traceable, between Sense 2 and Sense 1. Nowadays no knowledgeable scientist has any doubt of the fact of evolution: it is an indisputable fact that we share common ancestors with our cousin gorilla, and with our more distant cousin kangaroo.
Some scientists speak of the fact of evolution, as distinct from Darwins hypothesis of its mechanism (natural selection). They would relegate natural selection, but not evolution itself, to a Sense 2 theory. Others feel that natural selection is so well established as the only known mechanism for producing adaptive evolution that its historical progression from Sense 2 to Sense 1 is now almost as complete as that of evolution itself.
In our tussles with creationists it is evolution itself rather than natural selection that bears the brunt of their attacks. So we can set aside the status of natural selection and concentrate on the fact of evolution as something so firmly established by evidence that to deny it would be perverse. It is a fact, beyond all reasonable dispute, that if you trace your ancestry and your dogs ancestry backwards youll eventually hit a common ancestor. It is a fact, beyond reasonable dispute, that when you eat fish and chips you are eating distant cousin fish and even more distant cousin potato.
Confusion of a different kind is introduced by those who agree to abandon theory of evolution but try to replace it by law of evolution. It is far from clear that evolution is a law in the sense of Newtons Laws or Keplers Laws or Boyles Law or Snells Law. These are mathematical relationships, generalisations about the real world that are found to hold true when measurements are made. Evolution is not a law in that sense (although particular generalisations such as Dollos Law and Copes Law have been somewhat dubiously introduced into the corpus of Darwinian theory). Moreover, Law of Evolution conjures up unfortunate associations with grandiose overgeneralisations linking biological evolution, cultural evolution, linguistic evolution, economic evolution and evolution of the universe. So please, dont make matters worse by turning evolution into a law.
Lets simply give up on trying to explain the special scientific meaning of theory. It is begging to be misunderstood by laymen eager to misunderstand, and even scientists are not consistent in their usage. The ordinary language meaning of fact (it is a fact that New Zealand is in the Southern Hemisphere) and the scientific meaning (the evidence for evolution is so strong that to withhold assent would be perverse) are close enough to obviate confusion in the mind of all but the most doggedly pedantic philosopher. By all means postpone for another day the question of whether natural selection is also a fact. For now, when arguing with creationists, lets sweep confusion aside by means of a strategic retreat from the word theory. Lets sacrifice a pawn for strategic advantage and hammer home a clear message that everyone can understand, and which is undeniably true in the everyday sense. Evolution is a fact.
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1) Evolutionsteorin r fakta.
2) Strngteorin r inte en vetenskaplig teori.
3) "Teori" anvnds ofta missvisande nr man egentligen menar hypotes, ven bland vetenskapsmn.
4) Newtonisk mekanik r just vetenskapliga lagar, och inte falsifierade lagar.
Notera ocks det fetmarkerade om att ni "filosofer" kan frvntas frvrnga ordet "fakta"; hoppas att du, BuggaMigInte, knner dig trffad

Men ja, vad ska jag sga? Great minds think alike

S i alla fall, tidigare i trden hvdade du:
Och nu har du ftt det svart p vitt, frn en av vrldens ledande evolutionsbiologer, att evolutionsteorin r just obestridlig fakta. Jag vntar med stor spnning p ditt tunga intellektuella svar

Det sagt, min pong tidigare i trden str kvar: vetenskapliga teorier r synonymt med fakta, och kommer aldrig, aldrig, aldrig ngonsin att falsifieras. Spelar ingen roll om vissa smdetaljer i de olika vetenskapliga teorierna falsifieras nr nya bevis uppdagas; den vetenskapliga teorin som helhet falsifieras inte bara fr att forskare fick ngon mindre detalj om bakfoten; man reviderar bara missfrstndet utefter de nya bevisen, och drigenom r vetenskapen sjlvkorrigerande och inte "vetenskapen ndras hela tiden", lol.
Att du vill fortstta domdera om fakta och snt r fritt fram. Du kan dremot sluta citera mig ifall det r det du vill syssla med.