Comment Re:The Imams of the West (Score 1) 1152
>"outlaw any questioning of scientific theories" ??
Where are the scientists who welcome the teaching of alternatives to the theory of evolution? No, they lobby hard to pass laws making it illegal to teach any ideas that question the theory. Every year, a fragment of a jaw bone found in the "wrong" place causes scientists to go into a frenzy to rewrite the tree of evolution, but that's besides the point.
I'm sure people would be tripping over themselves to examine an alternate theory, I have yet to hear of one.
If they want to be treated as science, then they have to do the work, no magic sky fairies or other untestable rubbish.
> Are You asking for a 5-billion-year-long experiment ??
Yes. Otherwise the assumptions are non-falsifiable, and we might as well believe the writing on stone tablets found on a mountain somewhere.
That's just so completely wrong, plenty of stuff in the ToE is falsifiable; most of the deniers just whine that "none of those thing happen" and think the theory is at fault for being consistent with reality.
>Evolution isn't statistics. Geology isn't statistics. Cosmology isn't statistics.
They absolutely are. Journals for all three topics mention p-values all the time.
Stats can be used to assist in analyzing data, but they are just a tool, they are not the science.