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Nature
#71
RE: Nature
(February 19, 2012 at 3:26 pm)Thorham Wrote: Gravity exists, I see it's effects every day. How can it be a theory?

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#72
RE: Nature
(February 19, 2012 at 3:26 pm)Thorham Wrote: Right, then I ask: What isn't a theory in science?

Something that not a scientific theory: Pickle Theory, being that Vaeolet cannot go one week without craving a dill pickle.

Quote:Gravity exists, I see it's effects every day. How can it be a theory?

You never heard of the 'Theory of Gravity'? Where did you go to school? 0.o

Or the 'Theory of Relativity'?

'Theory of Evolution'?

Theory's about the best title you can give something scientifically.
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#73
RE: Nature
(February 19, 2012 at 8:34 am)Phil Wrote:
(February 18, 2012 at 9:21 am)Phil Wrote: When christoholics start in with the "only a theory" crap I just ask them to step off a roof because gravity is just a theory also. Usually they drop the "just a theory" argument.

(February 19, 2012 at 12:44 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: I think it was said elsewhere on the forum....

"Go jump of a building... after all Gravity is Only a Theory"
Yes, it was said on the previous page by some damn newbie poster.

Panic OMGG!!! You're getting under my skin Phil!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhh! Panic

See I thought it was very clever!! Did you also post a linky / img of scientific definitions as well?? I'll try again to find them.
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#74
RE: Nature
(February 20, 2012 at 2:34 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:
(February 19, 2012 at 8:34 am)Phil Wrote:
(February 18, 2012 at 9:21 am)Phil Wrote: When christoholics start in with the "only a theory" crap I just ask them to step off a roof because gravity is just a theory also. Usually they drop the "just a theory" argument.

(February 19, 2012 at 12:44 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: I think it was said elsewhere on the forum....

"Go jump of a building... after all Gravity is Only a Theory"
Yes, it was said on the previous page by some damn newbie poster.

Panic OMGG!!! You're getting under my skin Phil!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhh! Panic

See I thought it was very clever!! Did you also post a linky / img of scientific definitions as well?? I'll try again to find them.

Could even draw that out further. After they step of a roof showing how gravity is just a theory when they smash into the hard ground and become a puddle of mushy matter they are doing so because of another theory known as electromagnetic theory.
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#75
RE: Nature
I thought that was the Theory of Motion?

FOUND IT!! Big Grin http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=11584


There is a Google Docs Spreadsheet as well...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?...utput=html
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#76
RE: Nature
(February 20, 2012 at 3:18 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:



If the fall doesn't kill them and they suffer from a compound fracture or two (or three), then another "just a theory" comes into play called germ theory...it's theories all the way down Kichi.
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#77
RE: Nature
You won't get any argument from me Phil!!

I always laugh at the "Speed Kills" rhetoric from the local constabulary/ 'safety council'. They haven't figured that you face will not fly off @ 60k/mph it's the sudden stop that is the killer
A few more from a different blogsite..... http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/201...ds-matter/


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#78
RE: Nature
All this just because someone got the meaning of a word wrong?
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#79
RE: Nature
Phil Wrote:it's theories all the way down Kichi.

Damn!! Angry

Here I was thinking it is Turtles....


"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#80
RE: Nature
(February 20, 2012 at 4:10 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Here I was thinking it is Turtles....

That might explain why it takes the solar system 250 million years to orbit the center of the galaxy. Damn turtles are slow as molasses.
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