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Originally Posted by SuckOnThis
The only thing thought provoking is why someone over the age of 8 doesn't understand the basic concept of proof.
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would you be torqued up if I used the term "evidence" instead of proof?
Because it is a synonym. Let me know if you also do not know what synonym means.
here's a blurb for you
"Proof" is something that the opponents of science are always clamouring for, yet is not actually something that science suggests it will give - specifically in the common sense definition of "proof" that suggests that a claim has been proven 100%.
With some theories its very difficult to not think of them as proven (Newton's laws of motion, for instance) which have always and will always describe objects within the limits of those theories. Science as a method, however, deals not in proof but in evidence, and perhaps disproof when the evidence contradicts a hypothesis.