Honestly, I view statistics as the belief system of science. It can't be proven yet but in the mean time it's believed because of the likelyhood it can be proven.

Absolutely true. And even though science can disprove the 6k Earth it doesn't mean everything else in religious texts is false. While I don't proscribe to a religion I also don't proscribe to invalidating religion - even if certain elements are suspect that doesn't degrade some lessons to be learned from the texts - faith or not.

Technically, that's just theory that hasn't been proven by science yet ;)

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I think I know my own points. Thanks for your input though.

This was my point in the other discussion. If you can take a test and replicate it to get a consistent result that is scientific. Psychological studies can never truly be reproducible because of the diversity of humanity.

Religion and science can co-exist if people stopped attributing religious or anti-religious views to science. Science makes no claims about religion and they are not mutually exclusive. When atheists are asked "well, if you don't believe in religion what do you believe in" - they'll often erroneously say "science". Science is not a belief system though it may cause claims of religion to be called into question example: Jesus walking on water. To our current understanding of science this is not possible unaided. Maybe it was a hoax, maybe it was a divine being, maybe it wasn't a literal claim - science doesn't know, that's for people to examine or accept on faith (as part of a religion or otherwise).

Science needs to be separated from anti-religious ideology.

[facepalm] - The article made no such claim. The claim was that they shared a view that "science was like magic" - which both of them have been quoted as saying. That's the only comparison that was being made between the two - you're reading way more into it than it actually says.

What article are you reading? The part about psychology supports what I was saying completely.

Ad hominem arguments are pointless.

I still don't see the relevance to my comment but ok.

I would not disagree with your comment, but am perplexed as to its relevance.

Doing experiments on something does not require physical presence. And most of what we think we "know" has not been proven yet in a scientific manner. It's likely provable, but could be completely misunderstood and only the observable effects are common between what we think we know and what is provable.

lol - I have to say though I feel rather vindicated. In the http://science.slashdot.org/st... discussion I was making this argument (though probably not as well) and got mocked for it.

But previously you said

The document states that personal jurisdiction exists "... a court may exercise jurisdiction over a foreign company: First,if the company is regularly and continuously doing business in a state (even if it is not registered to do business there),it can usually be sued in that state’s courts and the federal courts located there,for a claim which arose anywhere in the world. Doing business may include systematically selling products into a state."

No "both kinds of jurisdiction" - just the one.

As to enforcement, aside from numerous treaties between Canada and the US where it could be enforced, international law also allows for it to a certain extent. Also, simply enforcing a judgement by preventing funds from leaving the country or extraditing those responsible are options. There are probably some I'm not even aware of.

Politics? Darn, I should have read the article - I thought this was about http://obamacare.com/