This from Luke's Hilarious Quotes By Theists quote thread:

Quote:Like saying scientific fact is verified by other scientists I guess.

Either you want validation or you don't. Surely validation has to involve 3rd parties somehow??

Science isn't perfect Frodo and no one here ever claimed it was (to my knowledge) and it does have internal validation but here's the thing ... someone advances a new mechanism hypothesis in (say) the theory of evolution yeah?

Let me make this clear ... the scientist is an evolutionist (theist or atheist I don't care), the work he has been doing is some mechanism of the theory of evolution, his ideas will be published in a journal of evolutionary research. This is all (I presume) accepted by you.

But if you don't like the idea of another evolutionist (a scientist) verifying his work exactly who would you have it done by? Could you be more specific on this 3rd party?

Kyu

Well that was my point in the thread. If verification isn't by other accepted experts in the field then how does that make it valid.

My 3rd party was other experts in the field.

(September 3, 2009 at 4:50 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Well that was my point in the thread. If verification isn't by other accepted experts in the field then how does that make it valid.

Why accepted?

(September 3, 2009 at 4:50 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: My 3rd party was other experts in the field.

That wasn't how it came across but if that's what you meant then FE, my bad.

Kyu